Linguistic Fluidity Quotes

A language does not become fixed. The human intellect is always on the march, or, if you prefer, in movement, and languages with it.

Many writers today are wanderers. There is not only an unhousedness in language - how to convey, to say nothing of converge - but an unhousedness of place.

Words are like butter Rolling off my lips Cut like a knife And now I'm sinking battleships

I'd rather be a comma than a full stop.

Language in art remains a highly ambiguous transaction, a quicksand, a trampoline, a frozen pool which might give way under you ... at any time.

Language is more fashion than science, and matters of usage, spelling and pronunciation tend to wander around like hemlines.

I am tied down with single words. But you wander off; you slip away; you rise up higher, with words and words in phrases.

People don't talk like this, theytalklikethis. Syllables, words, sentences run together like a watercolour left in the rain. To understand what anyone is saying to us we must separate these noises into words and the words into sentences so that we might in our turn issue a stream of mixed sounds in response.