You don't talk to a linguist without having what you say taken down and used in evidence against you at some point in time.
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There are times when the power of language is not the power that is needed.
Fools, most linguists. Damn all to say in one language, so they learn another and say damn all in that.
My language is what I use, and if I lost that, I wouldn't be able to say anything.
There are times in life when language fails us, when everything that needs to be said can be expressed only by saying nothing at all.
Language is one component of the human cognitive capacity which happens to be fairly amenable to enquiry. So we know a good deal about that.
'Right' and 'wrong' aren't words a linguist uses.
Speech happens to not be his language.
Humans are crude linguists from the moment of birth - and perhaps even in the womb - to the extent at least that we can hear spoken sounds and begin to recognize different combinations of language sounds.
I fear that, in the end, the famous debate among materialists, idealists, and dualists amounts to a merely verbal dispute that is more a matter for the linguist than for the speculative philosopher.
By and large, language is a tool for concealing the truth.
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