Linguistics Quotes

"It's kind of like back in the '80s when 'bad' meant 'good.'" "Communication: the thing humans forgot when we invented words." "The key test for an acronym is to ask whether it helps or hurts communication." "What's another word for Thesaurus?" "All language is but a poor translation" "Language is the house of Being." "Brevity is the soul of wit. " "The nothing nothings." "To handle a language skillfully is to practice a kind of evocative sorcery" "We inhabit a language rather than a country"