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“National languages are all huge systems of vested interests which sullenly resist critical inquiry.”

Language Interest Huge Critical Inquiry Vested Interests National Language

Book:Selected Writings of Edward Sapir in Language, Culture and Personality

Source: Selected Writings of Edward Sapir in Language, Culture and Personality

“The basis of any independent government is a national language, and we can no longer continue aping our former colonizers ... those who feel they cannot do without English can as well pack up and go.”

Feels Wells Government Language Bases Independent Former Packs National Language

Author:Jomo Kenyatta

“I doubt that national languages will disappear. In fact, to some extent they're becoming more diverse, like in Europe.”

Facts Language Doubt Becoming Europe Disappear Diverse Becoming More National Language

Author:Noam Chomsky

“Is calling English our national language racist? Are we at that point?”

Language Calling Racist National Language

Author:Tucker Carlson

“These examples of the lack of simplicity in English and French, all appearances to the contrary, could be multiplied almost without limit and apply to all national languages.”

Language Example Limits Simplicity Appearance Contrary National Language

Book:Selected Writings of Edward Sapir in Language, Culture and Personality

Source: Selected Writings of Edward Sapir in Language, Culture and Personality

“Central Europe is full of little countries standing shoulder to shoulder with no window to the sea. They are like the passengers in a rush-hour train which has stopped between stations for three centuries. And they all hate one another. And they're all crushed together waving their national flags, clanking their national chains, jabbering their national language.”

Littles Country Together Hate Three Language Hours Sea Century Europe Standing Window Train Shoulders Chains Stations Flags Crushed Passengers Rush Hour National Language

Author:Quentin Crisp

“English is a second language in most of the educated sectors of Europe and much of the world. But maybe in the future Chinese will be. But I doubt that national languages will disappear. In fact, to some extent they're becoming more diverse, like in Europe.”

World Facts Language Doubt Becoming Europe Disappear Educated Chinese Diverse Becoming More National Language

Author:Noam Chomsky

“Welsh is now almost a national language in Wales. The Scottish dialects are reviving to some extent. I don't think it's a major thing, but it's there, and it's happening elsewhere.”

Thinking Language Majors Happenings Elsewhere Scottish Wales Dialect Welsh National Language

Author:Noam Chomsky

“One of my favorite literary theorists, Mikhail Bakhtin, wrote that the defining characteristic of the novel is its unprecedented level of "heteroglossia" - the way it brings together so many different registers of language. He doesn't mean national languages, but rather the sublanguages we all navigate between every day: high language, low language, everything. I think there's something really powerful about the idea of the novel as a space that can bring all these languages together - not just aggregate them, like the Internet is so good at doing, but bring them into a dialogue.”

“A national language is a band of national union.”

Language Band Unions Translations National Language

Book:Dissertations on the English Language

Source: Dissertations on the English Language

“As a matter of fact, a national language which spreads beyond its own confines very quickly loses much of its original richness of content and is in no better case than a constructed language.”

Matter Facts Language Loses Cases Originals Spread Richness Matter Of Fact National Language

Book:General Linguistics

Source: General Linguistics

“No important national language, at least in the Occidental world, has complete regularity of grammatical structure, nor is there a single logical category which is adequately and consistently handled in terms of linguistic symbolism.”

World Important Language Term Structure Logical Categories Consistently Symbolism Regularity National Language

Book:General Linguistics

Source: General Linguistics

“They (Americans) have their national game, baseball - which is cricket played with a strong American accent - and they have a national language, entirely their own, unlike any other language spoken on the earth.”

Earth Funny America Games Language Strong Humorous Baseball Accents Cricket National Language

Book:How to scrape skies: the United States explored, rediscovered and explained

Source: How to scrape skies: the United States explored, rediscovered and explained

“Bad English was the second language of Israel and bad Hebrew, of course, remained the national language.”

Humor Funny Courses Language Humorous Israel Hebrew National Language

Book:The Prophet Motive: Israel Today and Tomorrow

Source: The Prophet Motive: Israel Today and Tomorrow