In all its myriad manifestations, the language of anti-Semitism through the ages is a dictionary of non-sequiturs and antonyms, a thesaurus of illogic and inconsistency.
People who share the same language, French or Chinese or whatever, have the same vocal cords and emit sounds which are basically the same, as they come from the same throats and lungs.
Although I'm not fluent in sign language by a long way, I could have a fairly decent conversation.
I wish I was not such a very bad hand at languages. That is one thing I cannot do, that and ride.
Irish and English are so widely separated in their mode of expression that nothing like a literal rendering from one language to the other is possible.
As for the once-revolutionary 'Agon,' after more than half a century, its lessons and revelations have been so absorbed into the language of ballet that it now seems almost conventional.
Congress has repeatedly passed laws and otherwise raised a ruckus about indecent language on the broadcast airwaves used for radio and television.
Tears are the noble language of eyes, and when true love of words is destitute. The eye by tears speak, while the tongue is mute.
In poetic language, in which the sign as such takes on an autonomous value, this sound symbolism becomes an actual factor and creates a sort of accompaniment to the signified.
Singing in Hindi is nice but restrictive. Regional languages are more rhythmic, have a different tone and sound, making it more interesting.
Flashbacks rarely involve language. Mine certainly didn't. They were visual, motor, and sensory, and they took place in a relentless, horrifying present.
Sink every impulse like a bolt. Secure The bastion of sensation. Do not waver Into language. Do not waver in it.
Assange is not a 'journalist' any more than the 'editor' of al-Qaeda's new English-language magazine 'Inspire' is a 'journalist.' He is an anti-American operative with blood on his hands.
Indeed, children thrown together in a community that doesn't have a language of its own will invent one in order to communicate with each other.
Lyrics have to be underwritten. That's why poets generally make poor lyric writers because the language is too rich. You get drowned in it.
Once God wrote a story that shook the heaven to the very core. Love was the only language used; You and I were the only characters.
We have our own language. Christianese... We don't say 'He's out of his mind,' no, we say 'That's our youth pastor.
What is unusual about Earth is that language, literally, has become alive. It has infested matter. It is replicating and defining and building itself. And it is in us.
Our world isn't made of earth, air and water or even molecules and atoms; our world is made of language.
I thought that subtitles are boring because they're there generally to serve us with information to make you understand what people are saying in a different language.
Self-control is one mark of a mature person; it applies to control of language, physical treatment of others, and the appetites of the body.
