Linguistics Quotes
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“Small Latin, and less Greek.”
“By your own report
A linguist.”
“C'est de l'hebreu pour moi.”
“Negates artifex sequi voces.”
“Lash'd into Latin by the tingling rod.”
“But, for my own part, it was Greek to me.”
“Away with him, away with him! he speaks Latin.”
“Glottochronology is a methodological deadlock.”
“This is your devoted friend, sir, the manifold linguist.”
“A Babylonish dialect
Which learned pedants much affect.”
“Speaks three or four languages word for word without a book.”
“It's as if we're higher apes who had a language faculty inserted.”
“Omnia Græce!
Cum sit turpe magis nostris nescire Latine.”
“Egad, I think the interpreter is the hardest to be understood of the two!”
“Wer fremde Sprachen nicht kennt, weiss nichts von seiner eigenen.”
“Languages are no more than the keys of Sciences. He who despises one, slights the other.”
“He Greek and Latin speaks with greater ease
Than hogs eat acorns, and tame pigeons peas.”
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“I love the language, that soft bastard Latin,
Which melts like kisses from a female mouth.”