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Languages are true analytical methods.

— Antoine Lavoisier

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

Language is a tool adequate to provide any degree of precision relevant to a particular situation.

— Kenneth L. Pike

A new, a vast, and a powerful language is developed for the future use of analysis, in which to wield its truths so that these may become of more speedy and accurate practical application for the purposes of mankind than the means hitherto in our possession have rendered possible.

— Ada Lovelace

Accuracy of language is one of the bulwarks of truth.

— Anna Jameson

The spirit of logical analysis should in practice blend with the practical pressure for the adoption of some form of international language, but it should not allow itself to be stampeded by it.

— Edward Sapir

I'm pretty good with languages.

— Marisol Nichols

Language is a mixture of statement and evocation.

— Elizabeth Bowen

I analyse in my own way, in very simple, no-jargon language. If somebody is talking in very complicated way, I never like that.

— Gautam Adani

I'm very analytical, I'm very precise.

— Al Yankovic

✗Opposing Perspectives

By and large, language is a tool for concealing the truth.

— George Carlin

The business, task or object of the scientific study of languages will if possible be 1) to trace the history of all known languages. Naturally this is possible only to a very limited extent and for very few languages.

— Ferdinand de Saussure