A new era in the physiological investigation of linguistic sounds was opened up by X-ray photography.

quote by Roman Jakobson
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Dialect words are those terrible marks of the beast to the truly genteel.

quote by Thomas Hardy
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Our business is infested with idiots who try to impress by using pretentious jargon.

quote by David Ogilvy
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Haste

Haste is bargained for trust
As love of hesitation is big.
You create a talking tool
For your haste to be wept
So that our words are leapt
And the language is lingo for disaster.

poem by Naveed Akram
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A linguistic system is a series of differences of sound combined with a series of differences of ideas.

quote by Ferdinand De Saussure
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I think English is a fantastic, rich and musical language, but of course your mother tongue is the most important for an actor.

quote by Max von Sydow
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Sugar On My Tongue

Oh, oh, Oh, oh,she's my neighbour
Fill my cup, I'll bet you baby
She'll fill it up
She'll drop the sugar on my tongue
Will she gimme gimme gimme some
She's gonna put sugar on my tongue
She's gonna gimme gimme gimme some
She'll put it right there on my tongue
Put it right there on my tongue
Sweet sweet, lover lover
Never never never find another
to put sugar on my tongue
Gimme gimme gimme some
Is she gonna put sugar on my tongue?
Is she gonna gimme gimme gimme some?
She'll put it right there on my tongue
Put it right there on my tongue
I've been waiting years and years
Finally I see that you appear
My friends are here, and they ask of me

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The ambiguities of language, both in terms of vocabulary and syntax, are fascinating: how important connotation is, what is lost and what is gained in the linguistic transition.

quote by Marilyn Hacker
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The echo knows all languages.

Finnish proverbs
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The great dialectic in our time is not, as anciently and by some still supposed, between capital and labor; it is between economic enterprise and the state.

quote by John Kenneth Galbraith
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A special kind of beauty exists which is born in language, of language, and for language.

quote by Gaston Bachelard
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Languages are true analytical methods.

quote by Antoine Lavoisier
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My Tsonga, My Language, My Heritage

My Culture represent my roots
My traditions represent my Being
My Religion represent my Faith
My Language is my heritage

My TSONGA MY freedom
I'm jack of all trade master of all Languages.
I can speak all 11 South African language
I can speak my Language above freedom of speech
I'm proud TSONGA iam Tsonga that makes me Original

poem by Advice Molewa
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Intended to serve as an introduction to both the linguistic and also the practical study of spoken English.

quote by Henry Sweet
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Linguistic sounds, considered as external, physical phenomena have two aspects, the motor and the acoustic.

quote by Roman Jakobson
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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.

quote by Moses Mendelssohn
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Classical Tamil World Conference (Semmozhi Tamizh Ulaga Manadu)

Through you, I came, Mother;
Lucky was my birth in Bharat, my Motherland;
I was nurtured and grew up by mother’s milk;
I drew strength from my mother’s love.

I knew the world through my mother-tongue;
I learnt most things by mother-tongue;
Thanks to my dear earthly mother;
Thanks to my Mother, Tamil!

The place where I was born was Tamilnadu;
Tamil is my mother-tongue;
Tamil was my first breath;
My first cry was in Tamil.

My last breath shall be Tamil;
My life will be for Tamil;
I am proud of my mother-tongue, Tamil;
I am proud to be a Tamilian!

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poem by John Celes
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I was very adept at acquiring languages.

quote by Anna Held
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I speak two languages, Body and English.

quote by Mae West
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Inarticulate Speech Of The Heart No. 2

Inarticulate speech, inarticulate speech of the heart
Inarticulate speech, inarticulate speech of the heart
I'm a soul in wonder (ahahah)
I'm a soul in wonder (ahahah)
I'm a soul in wonder (ahahah)
I'm a soul in wonder (ahahah)
Inarticulate speech, inarticulate speech of the heart
Inarticulate speech, inarticulate speech of the heart
I'm just wild about it i can't live without it
I'm just wild about it i can't live without it
Inarticulate speech, inarticulate speech of the heart
Inarticulate speech, inarticulate speech of the heart
I'm a soul in wonder (ahahah)
I'm a soul in wonder (ahahah)
I'm a soul in wonder (ahahah)
I'm a soul in wonder (ahahah)
Spoken
I'm a soul in wonder
I'm a soul in wonder
I'm a soul in wonder

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song performed by Van Morrison
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