Post No. 14,797
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THE PEN IS THE TONGUE OF THE MIND- CERVANTES
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THE MAN WHO KNOWS NO FOREIGN LANGUAGE KNOWS NOTHING OF HIS MOTHER TONGUE – GOETHE
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THE MYRTLE THAT GROWS AMNG THORNS IS A MYRTLE STILL- COLERIDGE
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MEND YOUR SPEECH A LITTLE, LEST IT MAR YOUR FORTUNE – SHAKESPEARE, KING LEAR.
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THE PALEST INK IS BETTER THAN THE MOST RETENTIVE MEMORY – CHINESE PROVERB
ONE PICTURE IS WORTH MANY THOUSANDS OF WORDS– CHINESE PROVERB
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GRAMMAR IS THE LOGIC OF SPEECH, EVEN AS LOGIC IS THE GRAMMAR OF REASON- TRENCH
THE MINIMUM GRAMMAR IS NO GRAMMAR AT ALL-GIUSEPPE PEANO
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ORDER IS HEAVEN’S FIRST LAW- ALEXANDER POPE
WHEN WE ARE UNDERSTOOD, WE ALWAYS SPEAK WELL, AND THEN ALL YOUR FINE DICTION SERVES NO PURPOSE- MOLIERE
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LANGUAGE IS AS MUCH AS AN ART AND AS SURE A REFUGE AS PAINTING OR MUSIC OR LITERATURE- JANE ELLEN HARRISON
LANGUAGE EXISTS ONLY WHEN IT IS LISTENED TO AS WELL AS SPOKEN. THE HEARER IS AN INDISPENSABLE PARTNER – JOHN DEWEY
LANGUAGE IS NOT AN ABSTRACT CONSTRUCTION OF THE LEARNED, OR OF DCTIONAERY MAKERS BUT IS SOMETHING ARISING OUT OF THE WORK, NEEDS, TIES, JOYS, AFFECTIONS, TASTES, OF LONG GENERATIONSOF HUMANITY AND HAS ITS BASES BROAD AND LOW, CLOSE TO THE GROUND– WALT WHITMAN IN SLANG IN AMERICA
ALL SLANG IS METAPHOR, AND ALL METAPHOR IS POETRY- G K CHESTER TON
LANGUAGE IS A CITY TO THE BUILDING OF WHICH EVERY HUMAN BEING BROUGHT A STONE- EMERSON.
LANGUAGE IS A STEED THAT CARRIES ONE INTO A FAR COUNTRY- ARAB PROVERB.
INTERPRETING IS NOT EVERYBODY’S ART- LUTHER
EGAD, I THINK THE INTERPRETER IS THE HARDEST TO BE UNDERSTOOD OF THE TWO- R B SHERIDAN, THE CRITIC
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AND THE WHOLE EARTH WAS OF ONE LANGUAGE, AND OF ONE SPEECH — GENESIS 11-1, BIBLE
THEREFORE, IS THE NAME OF IT CALLED BABEL; BECAUSE THE LORD DID THERE CONFOUND THE LANGUAGE OF THE EARTH- GENESIS 11-9, BIBLE.
IN RICHNESS, GOOD SENSE AND TERSE CONVENIENCE, NO OTHER OF THE LIVING LANGUAGES MAY BE PUT ASIDE ENGLISH -JAKOB GRIMM
I LIKE THE LANGUAGE, THAT SOFT BASTARD LATIN,
WHICH MELTS LIKE KISSES FROM A FEMALE MOUTH- BYRON , BEPPO.
LANGUAGE, AS WELL AS THE FACULTY OF SPEECH, WAS THE IMMEDIATE GIFT OF GOD- NOAH WEBSTER.
THE RUSSIAN IS STRONG IN THREE FOUNDATIONS; PERHAPS, NEVERMIND AND SOMEHOW- RUSSIAN PROVERB
WHAT IS HEALTHY TO A RUSSIAN IS DEATH TO A GERMAN– RUSSIAN PROVERB
NO MAN FULLY CAPABLE OF HIS OWN LANGUAGE EVER MASTERS ANOTHER- B B SHAW
WITH WORDS ALONE YOU DON’T MAKE A SOUP- RUMANIAN PROVERB.
In Tamil we say “ஏட்டுச் சுரைக்காய் கறிக்கு உதவாது” in English translates to “A gourd on paper is no good for cooking” or “Mere bookish knowledge is of no use in practical life”. This proverb highlights the idea that theoretical knowledge without practical application is ineffective.
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LANGUAGE MOST SHOWS A MAN; SPEAK, THAT I MAY SEE THEE- BEN JHONSON
And Frensh she spak ful faire and fetisly
After she scole of stratford-atte- bowe
For Frensh of parys was to hire unknowe.
–Chaucer
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The first known grammar in the world is Panini’s Sutras, a seventh century BCE treatise on the Sanskrit language, consisting of some 4000 very brief statements of linguistic phenomena.
—-subham—
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