Well, with the French language, which I understood and spoke, however imperfectly, and read in great quantities, at certain times, the matter I suppose was slightly different from either Latin or Greek.
The genius of the French language, descended from its single Latin stock, has triumphed most in the contrary direction - in simplicity, in unity, in clarity, and in restraint.
Socialist ideology is making France go to pot, and the French language with it.
I wrote the text of the resignation. I cannot say with precision when, but at the most two weeks before. I wrote it in Latin because something so important you do in Latin. Furthermore, Latin is a language in which I know well how to write in a more appropriate way.
Male supremacy is fused into the language, so that every sentence both heralds and affirms it.
The Gaelic language itself depends very much on ear and rhythm, and when those who are thinking in Gaelic speak in English, they get the same rhythm.
The position is: the Gaelic language is no longer the native language; it is dead, yet food is being brought to the graveyard.
My first language is Gaelic.
Everything that we inherit, the rain, the skies, the speech, and anybody who works in the English language in Ireland knows that there's the dead ghost of Gaelic in the language we use and listen to and that those things will reflect our Irish identity.
I know now that gang warfare is not the Middle East or Northern Ireland. There is violence in gang violence, but there is no conflict. It is not 'about something.' It is the language of the despondent and traumatized.
Words have a genealogy and it's easier to trace the evolution of a single word than the evolution of a language.
As soon as there is language, generality has entered the scene.
To work our way towards a shared language once again, we must first learn how to discover patterns which are deep, and capable of generating life.
The German language speaks Being, while all the others merely speak of Being.
Anyone that was raised with a Germanic language will agree that our tone is strong, especially once translated into English.
The Germans and I no longer speak the same language.
For me, the reputation for teaching language in general, and East European languages most particularly, gave Glasgow University, and by reflection the country, a distinction.
A gloss is a total system of perception and language.
I don't use any of the terminology like 'left wing' and 'right wing.' I use language like 'godly' and 'holiness.'
That term, 'David and Goliath,' has entered our language as a metaphor for improbable victories by some weak party over someone far stronger.
