If this hast been done to language, I fear to know the fate of all else.

  • -- Michael J. Sullivan 迈克尔·J·沙利文

如果这一切都发生在语言上,我害怕知道其他一切的命运。

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You can't write about people out of textbooks, and you can't use jargon. You have to speak clearly and simply and purely in a language that a six-year-old child can understand; and yet have the meanings and the overtones of language, and the implications, that appeal to the highest intelligence.

你不能写教科书之外的人物,你也不能使用术语。你必须用一个六岁的孩子能听懂的语言清晰、简单、纯粹地说;然而,语言的含义和暗示,以及它的含意,都能吸引最高的智力。

Words are our life. We are human because we use language. So I think we are less human when we use less language.

语言是我们的生命。我们是人类,因为我们使用语言。所以我认为当我们使用更少的语言时,我们就更不像人类了。