In science fiction, telepaths often communicate across language barriers, since thoughts are considered to be universal. However, this might not be true. Emotions and feelings may well be nonverbal and universal, so that one could telepathically send...
Deleuze and Guattari have been totally misunderstood because the following has been wrenched from context: "Forming grammatically correct sentences is for the normal individual the prerequisite for any submission to social laws. No one is supposed to...
Language is one of the more complex human cognitive functions,” Narly Golestani, Group Leader of the university’s Brain and Language Lab, tells me during a recent visit. “There’s been a lot of work on bilingualism. Interpretation goes one ste...
Travelers never think that they are the foreigners.
You are as many a person as languages you know.
As long as a language lives, the people will not perish.
Arabic is a language, Persian is a delicacy and Turkish is an art.
It has always been a mystery to me how Adam, Eve, and the serpent were taught the same language. Where did they get it? We know now, that it requires a great number of years to form a language; that it is of exceedingly slow growth. We also know that...
Metaphor isn't just decorative language. If it were, it wouldn't scare us so much. . . . Colorful language threatens some people, who associate it, I think, with a kind of eroticism (playing with language in public = playing with yourself), and with ...
Regret; The saddest word in the English language.
Between 1910 and 1950 approximately 350 lives of Jesus were published in the English language alone.
But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.
Body language has no translation.
Anyone can grow into something beautiful.
Sex must be important as it is so expensive.
I see tendencies, I see body language.
Image is an international language.
We tend to look through language and not realize how much power language has.
If human language, with its logic, is the way God has given us to understand the world, then the Torah must be understood in that same language and with that same logic.
Comics is a language. It's a language most people understand intuitively.
If language is lost, humanity is lost. If writing is lost, certain kinds of civilization and society are lost, but many other kinds remain - and there is no reason to think that those alternatives are inferior.
