I think that the Ideal consists in minding your own business and gently, but firmly, assisting others to mind theirs.
Myrtle Reed
Being a very good advice yet, sadly, unrealizable nowadays...
The Quote of Today comes from At the Sign of the Jack o`Lantern:
I think that the Ideal consists in minding your own business and gently, but firmly, assisting others to mind theirs. Myrtle Reed Being a very good advice yet, sadly, unrealizable nowadays...
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The Quote of the Day, today, comes from here and is sad:
Bo to nie jest prawda, że zawsze, kiedy tęcza i słońce, i niebo niebieskie – to już wtedy wszystko na świecie jest tak, jak powinno być. Jacek Nawrot The EN for that goes, more or less, like this: "It is not true that always when there`s rainbow and sunshine, and the sky is blue, then everything in the world is the way it should be." Too often too many of us tend to forget that... Today, the Quote of the Day comes from Pendulum.
Matyt, visiems, kuriuos kas nors praryja, atrodo, jog jie sklando danguje. Algimantas Mikuta The rather poor EN for that would go: "Maybe all those that have been devoured imagine they soar in the sky". Zealots especially... Another linguistic book I`d like to recommend is Bastard Tongues by Derek Bickerton. Some Quotes from that (concerning scholarly in general rather than just linguistic):
Absence of evidence has never stopped schollars from making stuff up whenever it suited them. Chomsky held that each child must be born with a language acquisition device, usually shortened to LAD (some linguists, terrified of looking sexist, suggested instead a language acquisition support system – LASS!). When you`re trained to see things a certain way, it`s amazing how blind you can be to the obvious. To really get to the heart of something, you can`t have too little training. The downside of higher education is that it gives you the confidence to maintain baseless fantasies in defiance of common sense. One of the differences between linguists and people is that people like words better than grammar and linguists like grammar better than words – they`re looking for systems, and words just aren`t systematic. This last one is not quite true (I`m a linguist, and I like words better than grammar), still notable. Please don`t let the Quotes above mislead you! The book does treat language, with samples and examples. Being not sure which might prove the best Quote of the Day, I`m offering a few today. All from Is That A Fish In Your Ear? by David Bellos.
Law is the very model of an untranslatable text, because the language of law is self-enclosed and refers to nothing outside itself. Layfolk the world over know why the law is untranslatable. It`s written in a language of its own that is almost impossible to understand, and what can be understood can`t be translated. The words of law often look like words of the language you speak, but when they are legal terms, they are not. The below might seem out of place here, but it is not really... What a thing is “for” and what it can be used to do must be kept apart. I do recommend reading the book! |
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