Harsh Language

Famous quotes containing the words harsh and/or language:

“I do not care for such speech in the midst of ills; harsh words, even when just, still sting.”
—Sophocles (497–406/5 B.C.)

“There is no such thing as a language, not if a language is anything like what many philosophers and linguists have supposed. There is therefore no such thing to be learned, mastered, or born with. We must give up the idea of a clearly defined shared structure which language-users acquire and then apply to cases.”
—Donald Davidson (b. 1917)