Africa is a huge continent; it would take several lifetimes of thousands of researchers testing in hundreds of languages to collect a valid sample of anything, especially IQ. Most Africans do their schooling in a second language, not their mother ton...
One of the series I like is D.M. Cornish's 'Monster Blood Tattoo,' in which he creates a whole language. Kids who are reading that are building a language in their heads. There's no real cognitive difference. I think kids are excited by language, and...
We often think that language mirrors the world in which we live, and I find that's not true. The language actually makes the world in which we live. Language is not - I mean, things don't have any mutable value by themselves; we ascribe them a value.
Maurice: [to Caesar in sign language] Why coockie Rocket? Caesar: [to Maurice in sign language and breaking and bundling sticks] Ape alone... weak. Apes together... strong. Maurice: [to Caesar in sign language as they observe chimps beating each othe...
When you do a film in a foreign language, you know there's a cost in it, that you know, unfortunately, the audiences of foreign language films have not been cultivated. There's a market, but the market has been reduced, unfortunately, and you know th...
Poets make the best topographers.
English people are so trapped in this class paradigm.
Remember, I have a Ph.D. in English literature.
Time. The most powerful word in the language. In any language.
Naturally, my body language changes given whatever environment I'm in.
Music is healing and soothing. It is the universal language of kindness and love.
We probably, as primitive people, made music before we actually had a language, and that's where language comes from.
A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant.
Mind in language are inseparable. If we violate our language we violate ourselves.
For most women, the language of conversation is primarily a language of rapport: a way of establishing connections and negotiating relationships.
I have dreamed of that song, of the strange words to that simple rhyme-song, and on several occasions I have understood what she was saying, in my dreams. In those dreams I spoke that language too, the first language, and I had dominion over the natu...
Do you understand the sadness of geography?
My children are English, and both of their mothers were English.
I always thought of the English landscape as being English gardens.
Dickens belongs to the English people.
English people have seen me get through scandals.
