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Linguistics Quotes

"Translation is the art of failure"

"Ye knowe ek that in forme of speeche is change"

"There is no language without deceit"

"The original is unfaithful to the translation"

"To handle a language skillfully is to practice a kind of evocative sorcery"

"It's kind of like back in the '80s when 'bad' meant 'good.'"

"Language is very powerful. Language does not just describe reality. Language creates the reality it describes."

"Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation are used is free and infinitely varied. Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation."

"We inhabit a language rather than a country"

"If a word in the dictionary were misspelled, how would we know?"

"The key test for an acronym is to ask whether it helps or hurts communication."

"By and large, language is a tool for concealing the truth"

"Speech and phenomena"

"What's another word for Thesaurus?"

"Words are all we have."

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