Top 32 Guy Deutscher Quotes
#1. Since red is a signal for many vital things, most importantly danger (blood) and sex
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#3. people find names for things they feel the need to talk about.
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#4. envisaged Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday as men but Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday as women. Why should this be so?
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#5. God doesn't make orange juice, God makes oranges.
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#6. Keeping order is a crutch for those who are too lazy to search for things ... )
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#7. Some languages, for example, have a gender distinction that is based only on "animacy," the distinction between animate beings (people and animals of both sexes) and inanimate things.
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#8. Fluent speech, there are no real spaces between words, so when two words frequently appear together they can easily fuse into one.
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#9. 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
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#11. The normal man of intelligence has something of a contempt for linguistic studies, convinced as he is nothing can well be more useless. Edward Sapir - 1924
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#12. We see in essence not with two eyes but with three: with the two eyes of the body and with the eye of the mind that is behind them. And it is in this eye of the mind in which the cultural-historical progressive development of the color sense takes place.
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#13. There is no way to devise an objective and non-arbitrary measure for comparing the overall complexity of any two given languages.
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#14. Without these much maligned forces of destruction, language would never have developed in the first place.
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#15. But from a purely linguistic perspective, and as a rule of thumb, when two varieties of what used to be the same language are no longer mutually intelligible, they can be called different languages.
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#16. abstract' comes from a Latin verb which simply meant 'draw away' (abstrahere).
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#17. The new anthropology required each culture to be understood on its own terms, as a product of its own evolution rather than as merely an earlier stage in the ascent toward Western civilization.
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#18. 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.
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#19. It is often in the audacity, in the steadfastness, of the general that the safety and the conservation of his men is found.
Napoleon Bonaparte
#20. The parts of the body are the closest and most immediate things in our physical environment, and are thus most deeply imprinted in our cognition, so it is no wonder that body-parts are the sources of terms for all kinds of more abstract concepts in so many languages.
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#22. Japanese used to have a color word, ao, that spanned both green and blue.
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#23. According to some researchers, hominids prior to Homo sapiens could not, for instance, produce the vowel i {ee}. But ultimately, this does not say very much, since by all accounts, et es perfectle pesseble to have a thoroughle respectable language wethout the vowel i.
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#24. the brain of a child learning a language can cope with a mind-boggling amount of linguistic complexity.
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#25. Needless to say, genders cheer up the everyday life of ordinary mortals too.
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#26. The names we use for things bear no inherent relation to the things themselves.
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#28. There are many languages that don't make a distinction between green and blue and treat these as shades of one color.
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#29. Word that is not actively used by one generation will not be heard by the next generation and will then be lost forever.
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#30. To think is to forget a difference, to generalize, to abstract.
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#31. If you notice something good, you must make it grow - whether it is within you or around you.
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#32. There is an inverse correlation between the complexity of society and of word structure!
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