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All true language is incomprehensible, like the chatter of a beggar's teeth.
All true language is incomprehensible, like the chatter of a beggar's teeth.
We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our read more
We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives.
Change your language and you change your thoughts.
Change your language and you change your thoughts.
How can I tell what I think till I see what I say?
How can I tell what I think till I see what I say?
There was speech in their dumbness, language in their very
gesture.
There was speech in their dumbness, language in their very
gesture.
And don't confound the language of the nation
With long-tailed words in osity and ation.
And don't confound the language of the nation
With long-tailed words in osity and ation.
Language is a city to the building of which every human being brought a stone.
Language is a city to the building of which every human being brought a stone.
If language had been the creation not of poetry but of logic, we should only have one.
If language had been the creation not of poetry but of logic, we should only have one.
Those who know nothing of foreign languages, knows nothing of their own.
Those who know nothing of foreign languages, knows nothing of their own.