#lang

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I think foreign countries really do like it when American artists sing in their language. And when you go over there and say, 'Hi, how are you?' in their language, they love it. It makes them feel like you're doing it just for them. We in America take so much for granted.


Natalie Cole


#american #artists #countries #doing #feel

Works of imagination should be written in very plain language; the more purely imaginative they are the more necessary it is to be plain.


Samuel Taylor Coleridge


#imaginative #language #more #necessary #plain

Homer's whole language, the language in which he lived, the language that he breathed, because he never saw it, or certainly those who formed his tradition never saw it, in characters on the pages. It was all on the tongue and in the ear.


Robert Fitzgerald


#breathed #certainly #characters #ear #formed

Well, with the French language, which I understood and spoke, however imperfectly, and read in great quantities, at certain times, the matter I suppose was slightly different from either Latin or Greek.


Robert Fitzgerald


#different #either #french #french language #great

Words began to appear in English and to make some kind of equivalent. For what satisfaction it is hard to say, except that something seems unusually piercing, living, handsome, in another language, and since English is yours, you wish it to be there too.


Robert Fitzgerald


#appear #began #english #equivalent #except

Myspace alone has just over 80 million users and ranks as the sixth most popular English language website and the eighth most popular site in the world.


Mike Fitzpatrick


#eighth #english #english language #just #language

It's always been easy with Mark, he's a rock fan and we speak the same language. He's a big Beatles fan too. We worked a lot via CLI calls, though only meeting up once every couple of months.


Phil Collins


#beatles #been #big #calls #couple

Lacan, as we have seen in our discussion of Freud, regards the unconscious as structured like a language. This is not only because it works by metaphor and metonymy: it is also because, like language itself for the post-structuralists, it is composed less of signs — stable meanings — than of signifiers. If you dream of a horse, it is not immediately obvious what this signifies: it may have many contradictory meanings, may be just one of a whole chain of signifiers with equally multiple meanings. The image of the horse, that is to say, is not a sign in Saussure’s sense - it does not have one determined signified tied neatly to its tail - but is a signifier which may be attached to many different signifieds, and which may itself bear the traces of the other signifiers which surround it. (I was not aware, when I wrote the above sentence, of the word-play involved in ‘horse’ and ‘tail’: one signifier interacted with another against my conscious intention.) The unconscious is just a continual movement and activity of signifiers, whose signifieds are often inaccessible to us because they are repressed. This is why Lacan speaks of the unconscious as a ‘sliding of the signified beneath the signifier’, as a constant fading and evaporation of meaning, a bizarre ‘modernist’ text which is almost unreadable and which will certainly never yield up its final secrets to interpretation.


Terry Eagleton


#freud #horses #lacan #language #post-structuralism

Classical and romantic: private language of a family quarrel, a dead dispute over the distribution of emphasis between man and nature.


Cyril Connolly


#classical #dead #dispute #distribution #emphasis

"Let God be true but every man a liar" is the language of true faith.


Aiden Wilson Tozer


#every #every man #faith #god #language