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Tag Name "Linguist" (10)

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I'm certainly not a linguist. I learned what languages I could learn in order to read books and I can't really speak them. I couldn't have stayed out of jail in most of them.
Clive James
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You might be a cunning linguist, but I am a master debater.
Donald Rumsfeld
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I feel such a difference between a philologist/linguist and a linguaphile as, say, a choreographer and a ballerina.
Kató Lomb
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I fear that, in the end, the famous debate among materialists, idealists, and dualists amounts to a merely verbal dispute that is more a matter for the linguist than for the speculative philosopher
Moses Mendelssohn
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A linguist deaf to the poetic functions of language and a literary scholar indifferent to linguistics are equally flagrant anachronisms.
Roman Jakobson
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You don't talk to a linguist without having what you say taken down and used in evidence against you at some point in time.
David Crystal
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Impulse is, after all, the best linguist its logic, if not conformable to Aristotle, cannot fail to be most convincing.
Henry David Thoreau
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As a linguist, I don't think of Ada as a big language. Now, English and Japanese, those are big languages. Ada is just a medium-sized language.
Larry Wall
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I fear that, in the end, the famous debate among materialists, idealists, and dualists amounts to a merely verbal dispute that is more a matter for the linguist than for the speculative philosopher
Moses Mendelssohn
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I'm no linguist, but I have been told that in the Russian language, there isn't even a word for freedom.
Ronald Reagan