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Language Quotes & Sayings

language-Mechanical difficulties with language are

Mechanical difficulties with language are the outcome of internal difficulties with thought.
- Elizabeth Bowen

language-Language is a mixture of

Language is a mixture of statement and evocation.
- Elizabeth Bowen

language-Don Chaucer. well of English

Don Chaucer. well of English undefyled On Fame's eternall beadroll worthie to be fyled.
- Edmund Spenser

language-How can I tell what

How can I tell what I think till I see what I say?
- E m Forster

language-Language helps form the limits

Language helps form the limits of our reality.
- Dale Spender

language-When a language creates -

When a language creates - as it does - a community within the present, it does so only by courtesy of a community between the present and the past.
- Christopher Ricks

language-To have another language is

To have another language is to possess a second soul.
- Charlemagne

language-Our native language is like

Our native language is like a second skin, so much a part of us we resist the idea that it is constantly changing, constantly being renewed.
- Casey Miller

language-All language reflects the prejudices

All language reflects the prejudices of the society in which it evolved.
- Casey Miller

language-It is of interest to

It is of interest to note that while some dolphins are reported to have learned English - up to fifty words used in correct context - no human being has been reported to have learned dolphines
- Carl Sagan

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