#lang

Language is political. That's why you and me, my Brother and Sister, that's why we supposed to choke our natural self into the weird, lying, barbarous, unreal, white speech and writing habits that the schools lay down like holy law. ↗

— June Jordan

#brother #brother and sister #choke #down #habits

If French is no longer the language of a power, it can be the language of a counter power. ↗

— Lionel Jospin

#french #language #longer #power

English is necessary as at present original works of science are in English. I believe that in two decades times original works of science will start coming out in our languages. Then we can move over like the Japanese. ↗

— Abdul Kalam

#coming #decades #english #i #i believe

To me, innovations are the wheel, fire, language, movable type. There are not 3 million innovations; there are 3 million inventions. ↗

— Dean Kamen

#innovations #inventions #language #me #million

In the studio system, things are expected of a film. By the first, second, third act, there's a generic language that comes out of the more commercial system. ↗

— Ralph Fiennes

#comes #commercial #expected #film #first

Yes, living voices in a living language, so it seemed to us. ↗

— Robert Fitzgerald

#living #seemed #us #voices #yes

The protean nature of the computer is such that it can act like a machine or like a language to be shaped and exploited. ↗

— Alan Kay

#act #computer #exploited #language #like

One of the most frustrating words in the human language, as far as I could tell, was love. So much meaning attached to this one little word. People bandied it about freely, using it to describe their attachments to possessions, pets, vacation destinations, and favorite foods. In the same breath they then applied this word to the person they considered most important in their lives. Wasn’t that insulting? Shouldn’t there be some other term to describe deeper emotion? ↗

— Alexandra Adornetto

#halo #human-language #liane #love #word

Language is the mother of thought, not its handmaiden. ↗

— Karl Kraus

#language #mother #thought

When I was younger, I used to hate Germany. I hated the country, the people, the language, the culture, everything! But over the years I've grown to really appreciate the German people. ↗

— Anthony Kiedis

#country #culture #everything #german #german people