Nenets People - Language

Famous quotes containing the word language:

“Jargon: any technical language we do not understand.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)

“We might hypothetically possess ourselves of every technological resource on the North American continent, but as long as our language is inadequate, our vision remains formless, our thinking and feeling are still running in the old cycles, our process may be “revolutionary” but not transformative.”
—Adrienne Rich (b. 1929)

“the language obscene

An engine, an engine
Chuffing me off like a Jew.”
—Sylvia Plath (1932–1963)