Guy Deutscher Quotes

Language is mankind’s greatest invention – except, of course, that it was never invented.

As strange as it may sound, our experience of a Chagall painting actually depends to some extent on whether our language has a word for blue.

Language is mankind's greatest inventiom… that it was never invented.

And if Germans do have systematic minds, this is just as likely to be because their exceedingly erratic mother tongue has exhausted their brains' capacity to cope with any further irregularity

Really, it is unfair to say that English spelling is not an accurate rendering of speech. It is – it's only that it renders the speech of the 16th century.