You and I who read and write books have very little effect upon language. We may think about it, write about it, and read about it, but it goes on without us, or in spite of us.
You and I who read and write books have very little effect upon language. We may think about it, write about it, and read about it, but it goes on wi… - Charlton Laird
You and I who read and write books have very little effect upon language. We may think about it, write about it, and read about it, but it goes on wi…
- Charlton Laird
The truth seems to be that they [teachers of grammar] were victims of a mighty hoax, one of those true belly-rumbling impostures which a workaday wor… - Charlton Laird
The truth seems to be that they [teachers of grammar] were victims of a mighty hoax, one of those true belly-rumbling impostures which a workaday wor…
Language is a living thing. It must survive in men's minds and on their tongues if it survives at all. - Charlton Laird
Language is a living thing. It must survive in men's minds and on their tongues if it survives at all.
The great arbiters of language are the women who speak it in the presence of children... What the women pass on to the next generation is "right" and… - Charlton Laird
The great arbiters of language are the women who speak it in the presence of children... What the women pass on to the next generation is "right" and…
Amoebas, once they have themselves well pulled in two, go their ways-they practice divorce, but no remarriage. - Charlton Laird
Amoebas, once they have themselves well pulled in two, go their ways-they practice divorce, but no remarriage.
Civilization could not exist until there was written language, because without written language no generation could bequeath to succeeding generation… - Charlton Laird
Civilization could not exist until there was written language, because without written language no generation could bequeath to succeeding generation…
Man can be defined, if one wishes, as a languag-ized mammal. - Charlton Laird
Man can be defined, if one wishes, as a languag-ized mammal.
Grammar is not a set of rules; it is something inherent in the language, and language cannot exist without it. It can be discovered, but not invented. - Charlton Laird
Grammar is not a set of rules; it is something inherent in the language, and language cannot exist without it. It can be discovered, but not invented.
If language is intimately related to being human, then when we study language we are, to a remarkable degree, studying human nature. - Charlton Laird
If language is intimately related to being human, then when we study language we are, to a remarkable degree, studying human nature.
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