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It is still not enough for language to have clarity and content... it must also have a goal and an imperative. Otherwise from language we descend to chatter, from chatter to babble and from babble to confusion. (Alesi Jean)
Language is not only the vehicle of thought, it is a great and efficient instrument in thinking. (Alesi Jean)
Male supremacy is fused into the language, so that every sentence both heralds and affirms it. (Alesi Jean)
There is the fear, common to all English-only speakers, that the chief purpose of foreign languages is to make fun of us. Otherwise, you know, why not just come out and say it? (Alesi Jean)
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The words of language, as they are written or spoken, do not seem to play any role in my mechanism of thought. The physical entities which seem to serve as elements in thought are certain signs and more or less clear images. (Alesi Jean)
Might, could, would --they are contemptible auxiliaries. (Alesi Jean)
The finest language is mostly made up of simple unimposing words. (Alesi Jean)
I like to be beholden to the great metropolitan English speech, the sea which receives tributaries from every region under heaven. (Alesi Jean)
Language is the archives of history. (Alesi Jean)
Language is a city to the building of which every human being brought a stone. (Alesi Jean)
The language of truth is simple. (Alesi Jean)
I ascribe a basic importance to the phenomenon of language. To speak means to be in a position to use a certain syntax, to grasp the morphology of this or that language, but it means above all to assume a culture, to support the weight of a civilization. (Alesi Jean)
The learned fool writes his nonsense in better language than the unlearned, but it is still nonsense. (Alesi Jean)
Words are the leaves of the tree of language, of which, if some fall away, a new succession takes their place. (Alesi Jean)
Those who know nothing of foreign languages, knows nothing of their own. (Alesi Jean)
It is difficult for a woman to define her feelings in language which is chiefly made by men to express theirs. (Alesi Jean)
Man acts as though he were the shaper and master of language, while in fact language remains the master of man. (Alesi Jean)
If the Romans had been obliged to learn Latin they would never have found time to conquer the world. (Alesi Jean)
The eyes have one language everywhere. (Alesi Jean)
After all, when you come right down to it, how many people speak the same language even when they speak the same language? (Alesi Jean)
Language is an archeological vehicle... the language we speak is a whole palimpsest of human effort and history. (Alesi Jean)
The proverbial German phenomenon of the verb-at-the-end about which droll tales of absentminded professors who would begin a sentence, ramble on for an entire lecture, and then finish up by rattling off a string of verbs by which their audience, for whom the stack had long since lost its coherence, would be totally nonplussed, are told, is an excellent example of linguistic recursion. (Alesi Jean)
Life and language are alike sacred. Homicide and verbicide --that is, violent treatment of a word with fatal results to its legitimate meaning, which is its life --are alike forbidden. (Alesi Jean)
Language is the blood of the soul into which thoughts run and out of which they grow. (Alesi Jean)
Grammar and logic free language from being at the mercy of the tone of voice. Grammar protects us against misunderstanding the sound of an uttered name; logic protects us against what we say have double meaning. (Alesi Jean)
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