Language Context Quotes

Ordinary language carries with it conditions of meaning which it is easy to recognize by classifying the contexts in which the expression is employed in a meaningful manner.

Words are chameleons, which reflect the color of their environment.

I'm not against profanity. It's an important part of the language when used properly.

Pronouns are only useful when you combine them with other words. I have a few I can give you, if you're at a loss.

The biblical authors wrote of God's sovereignty over His world, and of man's experiences within that world, using such modes of speech about the natural order and human experience as were current in their days, and in a language that was common to themselves and their contemporaries. This is saying no more than that they wrote to be understood. Their picture of the world and things in it is not put forward as normative for later science, andy more than their use of Hebrew and Greek is put forward as a perfect model for composition in these languages.

While 'Babel' is a foreign-language film in some countries, in others, it is a local film.

I speak Swedish mainly with my kids' friends.

I certainly don't walk around my home or being with my family and just using profane language all the time, but on stage, it's a constant.