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I don't hate language. I have my own language, but I also enjoy the English language. Obviously, you don't read a lot of literature and not care about language.
Literature is without proofs. By which it must be understood that it cannot prove, not only what it says, but even that it is worth the trouble of saying it.
For me, literature is a complex game, both mental and concrete, which is acted out in a physical manner on the page.
Imparting knowledge is only lighting other men's candles at our lamp without depriving ourselves of any flame.
Metaphors, similes, puns - all manner of metonymy - I'm interested in language that cannot be parsed by a machine - language that can only be understood through acculturation.
The learning and knowledge that we have, is, at the most, but little compared with that of which we are ignorant.
We have this wonderful language and we don't appreciate it. That's old-fashioned me, but when I went to school, everyone had elocution lessons, not to sound posh but so you could be understood.
The knowledge of languages was very useful. I have a university degree in foreign languages and literature.
Speech sounds cannot be understood, delimited, classified and explained except in the light of the tasks which they perform in language.
