Linguistic Border

Famous quotes containing the words linguistic and/or border:

“It is merely a linguistic peculiarity, not a logical fact, that we say “that is red” instead of “that reddens,” either in the sense of growing, becoming, red, or in the sense of making something else red.”
—John Dewey (1859–1952)

“Liberal hopefulness
Regards death as a mere border to an improving picture.”
—William Empson (1906–1984)