Linguistics Quotes

"There is no language without deceit" "Everything can change, but not the language that we carry inside us, like a world more exclusive and final than one's mother’s womb" "Writing is itself but the representation of speech" "But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought." "If a word in the dictionary were misspelled, how would we know?" "The original is unfaithful to the translation" "Language is very powerful. Language does not just describe reality. Language creates the reality it describes." "We commit ourselves to language and community at the same time" "The most important thing for me is to work on language" "Words are all we have."