Language is visibly invisible, and a foreign language is camouflaged. In another language, I love you may appear like common tree bark.
If you look at the historical record, you will find that language has always been in decline. Which means, really, and it never has.
Arguments about language are usually arguments about politics, disguised and channeled through one of our most distinctive markers of identity.
Thousands of miles from Georgia, beginning that night in England, my dad became a foreign-language speaker to me – and I was utterly charmed by it. I found the foreigner in myself.
And if Germans do have systematic minds, this is just as likely to be because their exceedingly erratic mother tongue has exhausted their brains' capacity to cope with any further irregularity
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...
Even though I have spent literally years of my life trying to learn another language, any other language - and even though I have in the past claimed in several key professional contexts that I speak other languages - I am in fact still trapped insid...
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...
If only…the saddest words in the English language.
Time. The most powerful word in the language. In any language.
Naturally, my body language changes given whatever environment I'm in.
The four most expensive word in the English language are 'This time it's different.
Music is healing and soothing. It is the universal language of kindness and love.
When it comes to love, the English language bears no shortage of cliches.
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.
