Implicatures In Linguistics Quotes & Sayings

It's what runners do. We keep on keeping on — Amby Burfoot

If you're open to it, New Orleans will teach you about yourself, but if you want to hide from who you really are, the city will help you do that, too. — Laurell K. Hamilton

It may well be that individuals who are attracted into linguistics have a certain talent for metalinguistic reflection - a delight in constructing ungrammatical sentences, finding curious ambiguities and implicatures, hearing and imitating accents, and the like - and that professional training as a linguist only amplifies this proclivity. It would then be no surprise that linguists' sense of what is interesting in language is different from that of our friends in biology, economics, and dentistry. It is just that we linguists have made the mistake of assuming everyone else is like us. — Ray S. Jackendoff

It is perhaps as difficult to write a good life as to live one. — Lytton Strachey

That's what Hubble can do for us. It can tell us whether the universe is expanding forever or if one day it's going to come back together. — Duane G. Carey

Say "NO" without guilt. Say "YES" without fear. — Paulo Coelho