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95% on content and the computer language remains the same.

A $200 million contract just got awarded to develop software to provide the Department of Defense with all these sock puppets who have fake Twitter and Facebook accounts. Why not create ten fake Libyan Twitter users and then get one journalist to follow them. But the problem is, of course, it corrupts the entire process. One of the caveats is that anything they write is going to be in a foreign language so it won't affect Americans. But that doesn't make any sense because: A) it can be translated pretty easily, and B) Americans also speak other languages.

A basic language-literacy of Nature is falling from us. And what is being lost along with this literacy is something perhaps even more valuable: a kind of language-magic, the power that certain words possess to enchant our imaginative relations with Nature and landscape.

Above all, translators must be native speakers. It’s not because they speak the language better – I understand that sometimes a foreigner can learn a language better than native speakers. It has more to do with intimate knowledge of the society for which the book is being translated.

Abstraction is an esoteric language.

Abstraction is itself an abstract word and has no single meaning ... Every word in our language is abstract, because it represents something else.

A candidate for office can have no greater advantage than muddled syntax; no greater liability than a command of language.

Accounting is the language of business.

Accuracy of language is one of the bulwarks of truth.

A change in language can transform our appreciation of the cosmos.

A cliché is like a coin that has been handled too much. Once language has been overly handled, it no longer leaves a clear imprint.

A cliche is like a coin that has been handled too much. Once language has been overly handled, it no longer leaves a clear imprint.

A common language is the most obvious binding element in any society.

A crease found it's way onto Joss's forehead. Because he was certain that Sirus was wrong. Girls were more complicated than boys. Girls communicated in a language that only they understood. And Joss wasn't sure at all that he would ever understand them.

A critic is a person who rationalizes his likes and dislikes in such impressive language that the layman thinks he is reasoning instead of rationalizing.

Actually, my correspondent's language is better than mine. He can put his sentiment into words.

Actually, that's one of the things I like most about my job: There isn't much of a day-to-day. For example, last week, I was flying with the RCAF, flying CF-18s. Today, I was going through my annual physical. I take language classes, I learn robotics and spacewalking, so every week is different.

A democratic civilization will save itself only if it makes the language of the image into a stimulus for critical reflection - not an invitation for hypnosis.

A dictionary can embrace only a small part of the vast tapestry of a language.

Advertising is not merely an assembly of competing messages; it is a language itself which is always being used to make the same general proposal

Africa. There are a gazillion different languages people speak there, different bone structures, so vast and different.

A foreign observer is struck by our gentleness: by the orderly behaviour of the English crowds, the lack of pushing and quarrelling, the willingness to form queues.

A French politician once wrote that it was a peculiarity of the French language that in it words occur in the order in which one thinks them.

Afrikaans is my first language, although you would never know, as my English accent has more of an American-British thing going on from all my years of travelling.

After all, nothing helps to write lyrics more than to mess around with the language.

After an extensive interview he arranged for my weaknesses in foreign languages to be over-looked and so I started a Biology degree at Birmingham in 1967.

After meeting the family, they really felt like a sitcom family, ... I thought it would be cool if we did a reality show, but told it with the visual language of a sitcom format.

Agosins poetic language engages the reader in a mesmerizing journey of inward reflection and exile.

After we have made our requests known to Him, our language should be, "Thy will be done". I would a thousand times rather that Gods' will should be done than my own.

A gloss is a total system of perception and language.

A good programming language is a conceptual universe for thinking about programming.

A great artist can really enter the logic of any particular mazurka and fully understand the language of Chopin's music.

A good poet will usually borrow from authors remote in time, or alien in language, or diverse in interest.

A great age of literature is perhaps always a great age of translations.

A language does not become fixed. The human intellect is always on the march, or, if you prefer, in movement, and languages with it.

A language, like a species, when extinct, never... reappears.

A language not based on universal symbols or sensations is gibberish, a pitfall of modern art, no longer modern.

A language that doesn't have everything is actually easier to program in than some that do

A language is a more ancient and inevitable thing than any state.

A language presupposes that all the individual users possess the organs.

A language is a map of our failures

Algebra reverses the relative importance of the factors in ordinary language.

[Albert Camus] really did know Algeria. He was an exile from his country, but still living in its language. Solitaire et solidaire. It's not like those who are exiled to a country where the language is not theirs.

A linguist deaf to the poetic functions of language and a literary scholar indifferent to linguistics are equally flagrant anachronisms.

All biblical exegetes and theologians have a theory of language, whether they acknowledge it or not.

[Allegory] is a flight by which the human wit attempts at one and the same time to investigate two objects, and consequently is fitted only to the most exalted geniuses.

All Christian language about the future is a set of signposts pointing into a mist.

All language is a popularity contest.

All Gaul is divided into three parts, one of which the Belgae inhabit, the Aquitani another, those who in their own language are called Celts, in ours Gauls, the third.

All language designers are arrogant. Goes with the territory.