#language

The surest method of being incomprehensible or, moreover, to be misunderstood is to use words in their original sense; especially words from the ancient languages. ↗

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

#being #especially #incomprehensible #languages #method

We have forgotten that we have not come to an empty land to inherit it, but we have come to conquer a country from people inhabiting it, that governs it by the virtue of its language and savage culture. ↗

— Moshe Sharett

#conquer #country #culture #empty #forgotten

We've driven teenagers crazy in every language. ↗

— Robert B. Sherman

#driven #every #language #teenagers

In the year 1915 a series of trivial incidents led some Chinese students in Cornell University to take up the question of reforming the Chinese language. ↗

— Hu Shih

#cornell #incidents #language #led #question

On July 26, 1916, I announced to all my friends in America that from now on I resolved to write no more poems in the classical language, and to begin my experiments in writing poetry in the so-called vulgar tongue of the people. ↗

— Hu Shih

#announced #begin #classical #experiments #friends

I have set out to change the language of the international system. ↗

— Clare Short

#i #international #language #national system #out

Now, it's my belief that Python is a lot easier than to teach to students programming and teach them C or C++ or Java at the same time because all the details of the languages are so much harder. Other scripting languages really don't work very well there either. ↗

— Guido van Rossum

#belief #details #easier #either #harder

The market is like a language, and you have to be able to understand what they're saying. ↗

— Jil Sander

#language #like #market #saying #understand

I got my dog back, in African-American language, your dog means your passion, your fire. ↗

— Deion Sanders

#back #dog #fire #got #i

My mother always told me I had to do 100 times better than a man. I had to work hard at maths, and learn four languages. ↗

— Marjane Satrapi

#better #four #had #hard #i