Linguistics Quotation Favorites - Angry Verbs

"They've a temper, some of them - particularly verbs, they're the proudest - adjectives you can do anything with, but not verbs..."

-Lewis Carroll

I suppose I would have a temper if I was always tense too.

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Add a Phoneme and Have a Happy New Year

A wonderful quotation by an unknown author:

"A New Year's resolution is something that goes in one Year and out the other."

/hæpi nu ir/... Oops, I meant to say /hæpi nu jir/

Linguistics Quotation Favorites

"Change your language and you change your thoughts"

-Karl Albrecht

Linguistics Quotation Favorites - Words

"The trouble with words is that you never know whose mouth they've been in."

-Dennis Potter

British Dramatist

Linguistics Quotation Favorites - Karl Albrecht

"Change your language and change your thoughts.”

-Karl Albrecht

Wisdom from the founder of the Albrecht-Discount supermarket chain.

Linguistics Quotation Favorites - Alfred Korzybski

Something to think about on the first Monday of this new year-

If words are not things, or maps are not the actual territory, then, obviously, the only possible link between the objective world and the linguistic world is found in structure, and structure alone.

- Alfred Korzybski

Linguistics Quotation Favorites - Virginia Woolf

"Language is wine upon the lips."

-Virginia Woolf

Linguistics Quotation Favorites - Universality

Linguistics will have to recognize laws operating universally in language, and in a strictly rational manner, separating general phenomena from those restricted to one branch of languages or another.

-Ferdinand de Saussure

Linguistics Quotation Favorites - Patterns

The marvelous thing is that even in studying linguistics, we find that the universe as a whole is patterned, ordered, and to some degree intelligible to us.

-Kenneth L. Pike

Linguistics Quotation Favorites - Metaphorically Speaking

Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.

-Truman Capote