I am always sorry when any language is lost, because languages are the pedigrees of nations.

quote by Samuel Johnson
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Well, maybe so, although I don't think I am particularly gifted in languages. In fact, oddly enough, it may have something to do with my being slow at languages.

quote by Robert Fitzgerald
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Love understands all languages.

Romanian proverbs
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When you grow up in a family of languages, you develop a kind of casual fluency, so that languages, though differently colored, all seem transparent to experience.

quote by David Antin
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I wish that I spoke more languages. I speak a couple languages, but not well enough to really dub myself. French is really the only one, and it's a difficult thing.

quote by Jodie Foster
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The link between peace and stability on the one hand, and social and economic growth on the other, is dialectic. Peace, poverty, and backwardness cannot mix in one region.

quote by King Hussein I
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The great enemy of clear language is insincerity.

classic quote by George Orwell
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A Postural Pose

All these reported things
they told repeatedly to me.
Seated with twisting snakes
envy desire bitter jealousy.

How tall she stands
how proud she looks.
Of her beauty envious
her beauty sparkling told.
Of five foreign languages
spoken with flawless fluency.
Without error inflected
better than native speaker.

Five languages yet
within this soul I grieve.
Five languages frozen
bound cannot express.
Non-communication
of your innermost self.

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poem by Terence George Craddock
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It is time for dead languages to be quiet.

quote by Natalie Clifford Barney
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What is jazz? It, It's almost like asking, What is French? Jazz is a musical language. It's a musical dialect that actually embodies the spirit of America.

quote by Branford Marsalis
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Science and technology multiply around us. To an increasing extent they dictate the languages in which we speak and think. Either we use those languages, or we remain mute.

quote by J.G. Ballard
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Viewed freely, the English language is the accretion and growth of every dialect, race, and range of time, and is both the free and compacted composition of all.

quote by Walt Whitman
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We play melodic music, we play songs, we play all kinds of things and when you improvise you don't just shut out different languages, you use all the languages that you have.

quote by Fred Frith
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Speech happens to not be his language.

quote by Madame de Stael
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You who speak languages, you are such liars.

quote by Orson Scott Card
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Not a barrier- the language

Music has no language,
I can enjoy your tongue.
Glances have no language,
I can understand their intentions.
Touches have no language,
I can feel their meanings.
Not in same tongue though we are
No less do we communicate.
20.01.99, Palakkad

poem by Rm. Shanmugam Chettiar
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Being dumb and deaf

I am deaf to you
If I don’t know your tongue.
I am dumb to you
If you don’t know my tongue.
Languages have made
People deaf and dumb.
18.06.2008

poem by Rm. Shanmugam Chettiar
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The dubbed are waste

When a movie, made in one language,
Is shown as dubbed in another,
It will irritate the audience
Who know both the languages.
The ethnic scenes will mismatch the language.
26.04.2008

poem by Rm. Shanmugam Chettiar
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Old donkeys do not learn languages.

Portuguese proverbs
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Language lost

My language lost
My identity lost.

Excuse me
I could not save my language.
I am forced to use foreign tongue
I am forced to shun all that are mine.
Excuse me
I could not save my language
I could not save my life
And I am not fine.

I want to talk in my mother tongue
I want to live in my home
I want to tell my Father to come and rescue.

My language lost
My identity lost.

poem by Gajanan Mishra
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