Linguistics Quotes

Translation software is not making translators obsolete. Has medical diagnostic software made doctors obsolete?

Of the 193 recognized countries in the world, only politically isolated North Korea is considered monolingual.

To deny access to translation and interpreting services oppresses human rights and violates laws.

Irish and English are so widely separated in their mode of expression that nothing like a literal rendering from one language to the other is possible.

Teach me to speak the language of men.

It is possible to be a great novelist - that is, to render a veracious account of your times - and a bad writer - that is, an incompetent practitioner of applied linguistics.

Colorless green ideas sleep furiouslythree old owls on a chest of drawerswere screwingthe daughter of the doctor.But then the mother called them, colorless green ideas slepp furiously.