There is no such thing as an ugly language. Today I hear every language as if it were the only one, and when I hear of one that is dying, it overwhelms me as though it were the death of the earth.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
It is time for dead languages to be quiet.
Language is an intrinsic part of who we are and what has, for good or evil, happened to us.
Every two weeks, a language dies. The world is diminished when it loses its human sayings, just as when it loses its diversity of plants and beasts.
It's haunting to realize that half of the languages of the world are teetering on the brink of extinction.
I think there's some pretty amazing language in the Bible.
Language is the blood of the soul into which thoughts run and out of which they grow.
Language can only deal meaningfully with a special, restricted segment of reality. The rest, and it is presumably the much larger part, is silence.
Language that is designed to dehumanize has consequences.
I have never designed a language for its own sake.
I love language, and I love the failure of language.