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The communication of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living.

The connection between the language in which we think/program and the problems and solutions we can imagine is very close. For this reason restricting language features with the intent of eliminating programmer errors is at best dangerous.

The conquest of learning is achieved through the knowledge of languages.

The dictionary is, however, only a rough draft.

The dictionary has been in the making for several decades, and the result is well worth the wait. MacLean and those who worked with her have consulted with Iñupiaq speakers from across Alaska's North Slope to compile a comprehensive collection of word stems, along with postbases, grammatical endings, and an array of other valuable material. . . . This dictionary will prove fascinating for anyone interested in the Iñupiat and their language.

The dictionary is based on the hypothesis -- obviously an unproven one -- that languages are made up of equivalent synonyms.

The difference between an author and a horse is that the horse doesn't understand the horse dealer's language.

The difference of language, dress, and manners . . . severs and alienates the nations of the globe.

The dinner even is only the parable of a dinner, commonly.

The Divinity could be invoked as well in the English language as in the French.

The divine communicates to us primarily through the language of the natural world. Not to hear the natural world is not to hear the divine.

... the English alphabet is pure insanity..., It can hardly spell any word in the language with any degree of certainty.

The English Bible - a book which, if everything else in our language should perish, would alone suffice to show the whole extent of its beauty and power.

The English language is nobody's special property. It is the property of the imagination: it is the property of the language itself.

The English language is more complex than calculus because numbers don't have nuances.

The English love for privacy is proverbial, and has not been exaggerated. A stranger who strikes up a conversation is looked upon with suspicion - unless he happens to be an American, when his ignorance of good manners is indulged.

The English take everything with an exquisite sense of humour. They are only offended if you tell them that they have no sense of humour.

The English language is so elastic that you can find another word to say the same thing.

The English language is an arsenal of weapons. If you are going to brandish them without checking to see whether or not they are loaded, you must expect to have them explode in your face from time to time.

The English language is not always the President's friend.

The English language is full of words that are just waiting to be misspelled, and the world is full of sticklers, ready to pounce.

The English language took in many many fertilizations, many many genes, from other languages, from foreign languages - Latin, French, Nordic languages, German, Scandinavian languages.

The enterprise of describing something in language that has never been described before is a very difficult thing to do. When you decide to do away with old cliches or old phraseologies, and to come up with a new way of saying something, it's extremely difficult.

The establishment of formal standards for proofs about programs... and the proposal that the semantics of a programming language may be defined independently of all processors for that language, by establishing standards of rigor for proofs about programs in the language, appears to be novel.

The exchange of words is a lot like a virtual handshake. Is the writer's grasp of the language strong and bold? Are the words gripping? Direct? Inventive? Sincere?

The film language is still in development and the traditional dialogue is the biggest problem because nobody knows how to interpret it in 3D world.

The finest command of language is often shown by saying nothing.

The first rule of translation: make sure you know at least one of the bloody languages!

The fixation of the theater in one language--written words, music, lights, noises--betokens its imminent ruin.

The formation of different languages and of distinct species and the proofs that both have been developed through a gradual process, are curiously parallel.

The form language used by the ancient Egyptians in their structures is minimal.

The force of a language does not consist of rejecting what is foreign but of swallowing it.

The foreign-language Oscar is something that doesn't go to the producer or the director; it goes to the country.

The four sweetest words in the English language — 'You wore me down.'

The French just said he was a damned nuisance. Or they would have had they the good fortune to speak English. Instead being French they were forced to say it in their own language.

The French verb aimer has two meanings. And that’s why he liked her, and loved her. She spoke to him in a language that, no matter how hard you studied it, could not be completely understood.

The game asks that you work to improve, that you put something into it, and that you also give something back to it. The game is universal. It is a language that unites all of us.

The German language is the organ among the languages.

The gentleman is generous and treats all men as his equals, especially those whom he feels to be inferior in rank and wealth.

The gift of language is the single human trait that marks us all genetically, setting us apart from the rest of life.

The globalized environment where speaking a lot of languages is rewarded and getting access to learning materials is easier. A talent for massive language learning has not been supported by the environment until very recently, so this is a phenomenon that is going to become more common and more visible.

The great arbiters of language are the women who speak it in the presence of children... What the women pass on to the next generation is "right" and what they do not bother to pass on to their children sooner or later becomes "wrong.

The great enemy of clear language is insincerity.

The greatest single programming language ever designed

The greatest obstacle to international understanding is the barrier of language

The Greeks distinguished between good and bad behavior, language that enhanced or diminished persons. Being intoxicated with scientism, we fail to recognize that the seemingly technical terms used to identify psychiatric illnesses and interventions are simply dyphemisms and euphemisms.

The habit of pleasing by flattery makes a language soft; the fear of offending by truth makes it circuitous and conventional.

The habits and language of clandestinity can intoxicate even its own practitioners.

The head cannot take in more than the seat can endure.

The highest thoughts are those which are least dependent on language, and the dignity of any composition and praise to which it is entitled are in exact proportion to its dependency of language or expression.