“Language is power, in ways more literal than most people think. When we speak, we exercise the power of language to transform reality. Why don't more of us realize the connection between language and power?” PeopleThinkingWayRealitySpeakLanguageRealizingExerciseConnectionsLiteralPower Of LanguageLanguage And Power Author:Julia Penelope
“[On the United States:] A nation which does not appreciate that the simple elocution exercise 'Merry Mary married hairy Harry' contains not one but three vowel sounds.” DoeStatesThreeLanguageNationsSoundSimpleUnitedUnited StatesExerciseMarriedAppreciateMaryMerryVowelsElocution Author:Jessica Mitford
“The language of commerce has been engineered to describe the overt purpose of a thing, but cannot encompass fringe benefits or peripheral pleasures. It weighs the obvious against what in its terms are incomprehensible. When I drive from here to there, speed, privacy, control, and safety are easy to claim. When I walk, what happens is more vague, more ambiguous-and in many circumstances much richer. I am out in the world. It's exercise, though not so quantifiably as on a treadmill in a gym with a digital readout.” WorldHas BeensHappensPurposeLanguageEasyTermWalksPleasureCircumstancesExerciseBenefitsClaimsSafetyEnvironmentalObviousSpeedPrivacyDigitalGymSustainabilityCommerceVagueFringeAmbiguousTreadmills Author:Rebecca Solnit
“You should never employ your intellect but only that it is not essential to exercise it in order to live a humane life. Language permeates all of life, of course, and one's mind is essential to it, but that does not mean intellectuality should transcend all of life.” ShouldMindMeanDoeOrderCoursesLanguageExerciseEssentialsIntellectHumane Author:Talal Asad
“I regard writing not as an investigation of character but as an exercise in the use of language, and with this I am obsessed.” WritingCharacterUseLanguageExerciseRegardObsessedInvestigationUse Of Language Author:Evelyn Waugh
“First you look for discipline and control. You want to exercise your will, bend the language your way, bend the world your way. You want to control the flow of impulses, images, words, faces, ideas. But there's a higher place, a secret aspiration. You want to let go. You want to lose yourself in language, become a carrier or messenger.” WorldWayWantFirstsLooksIdeasFacesLanguageLosesSecretHigherDisciplineExerciseLetting GoFlowImpulseAspirationMessengersLosing YourselfCarrier Book:Conversations with Don DeLillo Source: Conversations with Don DeLillo
“Freedom of expression is not absolute. Countries have laws that define the framework for exercising this right and which, for instance, condemn racist language.” CountryLawLanguageExpressionExerciseAbsolutesInstanceRacistFrameworkFreedom Of Expression Author:Tariq Ramadan
“I think one reason I'm drawn to expansive syntax is that arias are so often exercises in extending language as a means of intensifying feeling.” ThinkingMeanReasonFeelingsLanguageExerciseExtendingSyntaxAria Author:Garth Greenwell
“Some innate capacity - some part of the human genetic endowment - enters into language acquisition. That much is uncontroversial among those who believe that humans are part of the natural world. If it were not true, would be a miracle that my granddaughter reflexively identified some elements of the blooming buzzing confusion as language-related and went on to acquire capacities of the kind that you and I are now exercising, while her pet kitten (chimp, songbird, bee...), presented with exactly the same data, could not take the first step, let alone the later ones.” IfsWorldFirstsBelieveHumansKindWould BeLanguageNaturalStepsExerciseElementsCapacityMiracleConfusionDataRelatedAcquirePetFirst StepsBeesInnateNatural WorldAcquisitionKittenEndowmentBloomingGranddaughterLanguage AcquisitionSongbirds Author:Noam Chomsky
“One was a horrible case called Oliphant v. Suquamish Indian Tribe which denied tribes the right to criminally prosecute non-Indians who commit crimes on their reservations. That decision has had horrible consequences for law enforcement on Indian reservations. But in that opinion Justice William Rehnquist cites language from the 1830s to explain why whites didn't trust tribes to exercise criminal jurisdiction. They were savages.” LanguageJusticeDecisionOpinionCrimeExerciseConsequenceHorribleCommitLaw EnforcementCiting Author:Robert A. Williams, Jr.
“Boys do not have the language skills of little girls. Boys go to school feeling like idiots. We wonder why fifty-six percent of the enrollment at universities is female. I might consider having same-sex education. Boys from day one are pampered and feel good about themselves and then when they go to school, they feel like idiots. I would have exercise in the morning at eight. They clearly learn better after they open up their brain. Why can't we accommodate the brain and not the school?” FeelingsSchoolGirlLanguageBrainWonderBoysMorningExerciseFemaleFeel GoodIdiot Author:Paul Orfalea
“People say that the brain is a muscle and that one of the best exercises for any brain is learning another language and to switch from one to another as much as you can. I've found out that when I have trouble regarding any character or any particular scene in English, sometimes I'll switch to Spanish and I'll solve the problem that I've encountered. If I'm working in Spanish and I don't know how to approach certain scenes or certain emotions, or how to say this and that, I just switch to English to try to solve it that way and it works.” PeopleTryingSometimesCharacterProblemLanguageEmotionBrainTroubleExerciseScene Author:Demian Bichir
“I sometimes hold it half a sin To put in words the grief I feel For words, like nature, half reveal And half conceal the soul within. But, for the unquiet heart and brain A use measured language lie's The sad mechanic exercise Like dull narcotic's, numbing pain In words, like weeds, I'll wrap me o'er Like coarsest clothes against the cold But large grief which these enfold Is given in outline and no more.” FeelsHeartSoulSometimesUsePainLyingLanguageGivenSinGriefBrainHalfColdExerciseClothesDullWeedMechanicWrapsOutlinesNarcoticsNumbingHeart And Brain Author:Alfred Lord Tennyson