Impatience translates itself into a desire to have something immediate done about it all, and, as is generally the case with impatience, resolves itself in the easiest way that lies ready to hand.

It is no secret that the fruits of language study are in no sort of relation to the labour spent on teaching and learning them.

One of the glories of English simplicity is the possibility of using the same word as noun and verb.

Human beings do not wish to be modest; they want to be as expressive - that is, as immodest - as fear allows; fashion helps them solve that paradoxical problem.

Were a language ever completely "grammatical" it would be a perfect engine of conceptual expression. Unfortunately, or luckily, no language is tyrannically consistent. All grammars leak.

A firm, for instance, that does business in many countries of the world is driven to spend an enormous amount of time, labour, and money in providing for translation services.

Nonverbal communication is an elaborate secret code that is written nowhere, known by none, and understood by all.