language

It may be a silly way, but if you remember that an owl looks like _(OO)_, it will perhaps help you remember that it is pronounced with something close to '_oo'.

He had existed for a long time and was fluent in many languages - most of them_dead ones.

I think it's fair to say that I don't pick up languages. If anything, I roll around in them gracelessly and pray that something sticks.

Facing a language you don't know is like returning to your infancy when your mother tongue used to be a foreign language to you

Grammar is the breathing power for the life of language

Latin is a dead tongue And Romans made songs! Then no one disagree: It delighted them in theory Now it's "the Latin" in me.

Language is still separating us even though technology is bringing us closer together.

Without language, thought is a vague, uncharted nebula.

Music is the sweetest language for hearts, kindest prayer for souls, peaceful breeze for minds, and a magical sail for imaginations.

Silence might be a shout for the truth. It might be the speech that someday, in its truest, most uncontaminated, unadulterated state, all will be revealed.

The face of self-pity was universally understood.

From time to time I try to imagine this world of which he spoke--a culture in whose mythology words might be that precious, in which words were conceived as vessels for communications from the heart; a society in which words are holy, and the challenge of life is based upon the quest for gentle words, holy words, gentle truths, holy truths.I try to imagine for myself a world in which the words one gives one's children are the shell into which they shall grow, so one chooses one's children are the shell into which they shall grow, so one chooses one's words carefully, like precious gifts, like magnificent gifts, like magnificent inheritances, for they convey an excess of what we have imagined, they bear gifts beyond imagination, they reveal and revisit the wealth of history.How carefully, how slowly, and how lovingly we might step into our expectations of each other in such a world.

I wish I didn__ need words to speak to her. They sometimes hold very different meanings for us both.

... but I love language. It is a living, breathing, evolving thing, and language has power. Whether in a song lyric, a poem, a speech, or a simple conversation, we__e all experienced words that resonate with us. They may make us recall a powerful moment, inspire us, move us, or perhaps, comfort us_. But at the same time, we don__ think in words. We think in pictures. If I say the word __og_ to you, you aren__ picturing the letters, d-o-g, you__e picturing a dog from your memory...

Each word's evocative value or virtue, its individual power of touching springs in the mind and of initiating visions, becomes a treasure to revel in. Besides this hold on affection a word may well have about it the glamorous prestige of high adventures in great company. Think of that the plain word "dust" calls to mind. "Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was." "Dust hath closed Helen's eye." "All follow this and come to dust." "The way to dusty death." So, to the lover of words, each word may be not a precious stone only, but one that has shone on Solomon's temple or in Cleopatra's hair.

Words themselves are all the ghosts we need.

Every poet knows that the gift of the gods is not fire but language. __an dwells poetically on this earth,_ Hölderin wrote. Language is the essence of being human. We can think, thanks to language, for thought exists only by the grace of words. Our experiences and emotions are molded by language. It is language that allows us to name and know the world. We ourselves are known by language, through prayer, confession, poetry. Language gives us a world that reaches beyond the reality of the moment, to a past (there was_) and a future (there shall be_). It is through language that eternity has a space and that the dead continue to speak: __efunctus adhuc loquitur_ (Hebrews 11:4). Thanks to language, there is meaning, there is truth.

I can feel the power of the words doing the work. Must trust language more.