- Desert
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- Nov 07, 2020
Language Quotes
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- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Genealogy
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- Nov 07, 2020
Words have a genealogy and it's easier to trace the evolution of a single word than the evolution of a language.
- Cognitive
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- Nov 07, 2020
Language is possible due to a number of cognitive and physical characteristics that are unique to humans but none of which that are unique to language. Coming together they make language possible. But the fundamental building block of language is community.
- Community
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- Nov 07, 2020
Humans are a social species more than any other, and in order to build a community, which for some reason humans have to do in order to live, we have to solve the communication problem. Language is the tool that was invented to solve that problem.
- Situation
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are very few places in the world where you have to learn a language with no language in common. It's called a monolingual field situation.
- Place
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- Nov 07, 2020
How emigration is actually lived - well, this depends on many factors: education, economic station, language, where one lands, and what support network is in place at the site of arrival.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was younger, I was able to write with music playing in the background, but these days, I can't. I find it distracting. Even when the music is just instrumental or has lyrics in a language I don't understand, the clash between the voices in my head and the song can be very disorienting.
- Educated
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- Nov 07, 2020
I write in English because I was raised in the States and educated in this language.
- School
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I started writing seriously in high school, English was the language I had at my disposal - my Spanish was domestic, colloquial, and not particularly literary or sophisticated.
- Fighting
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of my big philosophies is that fighting is the sport that crosses all borders. I don't care what color you are, what country you come from or what language you speak, fighting is in our DNA. We get it and we like it.
- Challenge
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- Nov 07, 2020
TPP replicates similar language from past trade agreements that has allowed foreign corporations the right to challenge U.S. federal, state, and local laws outside of American courts. These tribunals will not meet our high standard of transparency and due process, and they will rely on weak impartiality rules for selecting judges.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I recorded my solo album, 'Keep It Hid,' in 2008, I'd gotten more interested in songwriting, inspired by reading Charles Bukowski and connecting with unfancy, interesting language.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
I hadn't seen that many movies that really go deep enough into the fears of playing music or the language that musicians can use to treat each other or, like, the way that you can see it dehumanize and the way that it can feel like boot camp.
- Will
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- Nov 07, 2020