"'Ouch' is not independent of social training. One has only to prick a foreigner to appreciate that it is an English word."

Willard Van Orman Quine, American Philosopher

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"'Ouch' is not independent of social training. One has only to prick a foreigner to appreciate that it is an English word."

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"Belladonna, n.: In Italian a beautiful lady; in English a deadly poison. A striking example of the essential identity of the two tongues."

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"He is forced to coin words himself, and, taking his pain in one hand, and a lump of pure sound in the other (as perhaps the people of Babel did in the beginning), so to crush them together that a brand new word in the end drops out."

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"It was all completely incomprehensible to me. I was fearful of the language. You had to look up every third word."

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"Language is like a road, it cannot be perceived all at once because it unfolds in time, whether heard or read. This narrative or temporal element has made writing and walking resemble each other."

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"Oh, how scary and wonderful it is that words can change our lives simply by being next to each other."

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"Belladonna, n.: In Italian a beautiful lady; in English a deadly poison. A striking example of the essential identity of the two tongues."

"English is not merely a language anymore, it has become a way of life for millions of non-native English speakers around the world."

"He is forced to coin words himself, and, taking his pain in one hand, and a lump of pure sound in the other (as perhaps the people of Babel did in the beginning), so to crush them together that a brand new word in the end drops out."

"Aye, aye, that's the way wi' thee: thee allays makes a peck o' thy own words out o' a pint o' the Bible's."

"Every language has its own word for the sun, but the sun us always the same."

"It was all completely incomprehensible to me. I was fearful of the language. You had to look up every third word."

"Words are the fallen ruins of silent majesty."

"Language is like a road, it cannot be perceived all at once because it unfolds in time, whether heard or read. This narrative or temporal element has made writing and walking resemble each other."

"Oh, how scary and wonderful it is that words can change our lives simply by being next to each other."

"My favorite pudding is good old English apple pie."

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"Confusion of sign and object is original sin coeval with the word."

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"Physics investigates the essential nature of the world, and biology describes a local bump. Psychology, human psychology, describes a bump on the bump."

"Uncritical semantics is the myth of a museum in which the exhibits are meanings and the words are labels. To switch languages is to change the labels."

"The familiar material objects may not be all that is real, but they are admirable examples."

"We do not learn first what to talk about and then what to say about it."

"Meaning is what essence becomes when it is divorced from the object of reference and wedded to the word."

"Language is conceived in sin and science is its redemption."

"To be is to be the value of a variable."