Science and technology multiply around us. To an increasing extent they dictate the languages in which we speak and think. Either we use those languages, or we remain mute.
When you're looking at small languages, the population of speakers is so small that there might not be people with the expertise in science or agronomy to write optimal planting strategies for maize in the local language.
It's really sad for me that in the United States the Latino community is losing its culture and language, especially among kids born here - a lot of them can't even speak our language.
We play melodic music, we play songs, we play all kinds of things and when you improvise you don't just shut out different languages, you use all the languages that you have.
The word 'right' should be excluded from political language, as the word 'cause' from the language of philosophy.
Some people use language as a mask. And some want to create designed language that appears to reveal them but does not.
When a film is created, it is created in a language, which is not only about words, but also the way that very language encodes our perception of the world, our understanding of it.
The language of prose is very different than the language of cinema, so the movie has to successfully translate what was in the book.
Perl was designed to work more like a natural language. It's a little more complicated but there are more shortcuts, and once you learned the language, it's more expressive.
I'm one of those people that feels that Americans that shouldn't do Shakespeare... The rhythms of the English language and the mannerisms of the English speech seems to work effortlessly with William Shakespeare, but when Americans do it, something s...
If the president is going to use so much language of theology and the Bible, then let's use that language for a serious discussion about the war in Iraq. And that was never done.
If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart.
For many foreign fighters, the jihad in Iraq and Syria is a commuter war.
Let nothing human be foreign to me
To the people here, we are outsiders. Foreigners.
When American presidents prepare for foreign wars, they lie.
Foreign interventions always end badly.
When I'm in a foreign city, I like to get to know it like a local.
A good proportion of foreign nationals in jobs in the UK are in semi or low-skilled occupations.
Go to foreign countries and you will get to know the good things one possesses at home.
I was a member of the Politburo for seven years, a foreign minister.
