Quotes About Expression

people find names for things they feel the need to talk about.

There are four tongues worthy of the world's use," says the Talmud: "Greek for song, Latin for war, Syriac for lamentation, and Hebrew for ordinary speech.

The mind cannot just manufacture words for abstract concepts out of thin air – all it can do is adapt what is already available.

the Russian-American linguist Roman Jakobson encapsulated Boas's insight into a pithy maxim: "Languages differ essentially in what they must convey and not in what they may convey." The crucial differences between languages, in other words, are not in what each language allows its speakers to express—for in theory any language could express anything—but in what information each language obliges it speakers to express.

Much of a language's complexity is not necessarily for effective communication.

The wheels of language run so smoothly that one rarely bothers to stop and think about all the resourcefulness and expertise that must have gone into making it tick. Language conceals its art.

The real differences between languages, he argued, are not in what a language is able to express but rather in "what it encourages and stimulates its speakers to do from its own inner force.

Languages differ essentially in what they must convey and not in what they may convey.

Needless to say, genders cheer up the everyday life of ordinary mortals too.

According to some researchers, hominids prior to Homo sapiens could not, for instance, produce the vowel i {ee}. But ultimately, this does not say very much, since by all accounts, et es perfectle pesseble to have a thoroughle respectable language wethout the vowel i.

The German starts by claiming: 'German is off course ze best language. It is ze language off logik and philosophy, and can commuicate viz great clarity and precision even ze most complex ideas.' 'Boeff,' shrugs the Frenchman, 'but French, French, it ees ze language of lurve! In French, we can convey all ze subtletees of romance weez elegance and flair.

Another area where languages often display erratic behaviour is what linguists call 'gender',

Language is mankind's greatest inventiom… that it was never invented.

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Language. The process of sharing with words seemed such a futile exercise sometimes.

Lazy poets try to elicit a reader's response with words designed to tug at the heart.

He wasn't a poet, not everyone is.

We are the total of our longings, he had written. But Kevin was a song-writer, not a poet, and he never did use it.

What broke her in the end was to see that Dari, moving quietly in the snow, was tracing his flower neatly with a thin branch in the growing dark while tears were pouring down his face without surcease.

He turned to the king of Valledo. "Make your country—all of Esperaña if you can unite it—into a land that understands more than only war and righteous piety. Allow space in your lives for more than battle chants to inspire soldiers. Teach your people to . . . understand a garden, the reason for a fountain, music.

Maybe it is the art that will outlive us all.

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Writing is therapeutic. It helps you cope with issues that seem gargantuan at the time. The process of expressing yourself about a problem, editing your thoughts, and writing some more can help you control issues that you face.

I'm not really beautiful,' she said to herself, 'but tonight I feel beautiful. And I look like a girl who feels beautiful.' (84)