Nukak People - Language

Famous quotes containing the word language:

“the language obscene

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

“Any language is necessarily a finite system applied with different degrees of creativity to an infinite variety of situations, and most of the words and phrases we use are “prefabricated” in the sense that we don’t coin new ones every time we speak.”
—David Lodge (b. 1935)

“Man acts as though he were the shaper and master of language, while in fact language remains the master of man.”
—Martin Heidegger (1889–1976)