Quotes by Mathews, Harry

Syntax and vocabulary are overwhelming constraints --the rules that ru >>

Translation is the paradigm, the exemplar of all writing. It is transl >>

A man is too apt to forget that in this world he cannot have everythin >>

Quotations about Language

The learned fool writes his nonsense in better language than the unlea >>

It is difficult for a woman to define her feelings in language which i >>

Viewed freely, the English language is the accretion and growth of eve >>

Syntax and vocabulary are overwhelming constraints --the rules that run us. Language is using us to talk --we think we're using the language, but language is doing the thinking, we're its slavish agents.

Mathews, Harry