Language and identity are so fundamentally intertwined. You peel back all the layers in terms of what we wear and what we eat and all the things that mark us, and in the end, what we have are our words.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
What is your identity, and how do you know who you are if you don't have language?
Our language is the reflection of ourselves. A language is an exact reflection of the character and growth of its speakers.
Language is an intrinsic part of who we are and what has, for good or evil, happened to us.
Language is memory and metaphor.
Some languages expand not only your ability to speak to different people but what you're able to think.
Language is a living thing. We can feel it changing. Parts of it become old: they drop off and are forgotten. New pieces bud out, spread into leaves, and become big branches, proliferating.
Language is the dress of thought.
A different language is a different vision of life.
Language is handy, but we humans have social and emotional connections that transcend words and are communicated - and understood - without conscious thought.
We often think that language mirrors the world in which we live, and I find that's not true. The language actually makes the world in which we live. Language is not - I mean, things don't have any mutable value by themselves; we ascribe them a value.