Ahmed

“The job of the linguist, like that of the biologist or the botanist, is not to tell us how nature should behave, or what its creations should look like, but to describe those creations in all their messy glory and try to figure out what they can teach us about life, the world, and, especially in the case of linguistics, the workings of the human mind.”
― Arika Okrent, In the Land of Invented Languages: Esperanto Rock Stars, Klingon Poets, Loglan Lovers, and the Mad Dreamers Who Tried to Build a Perfect Language

“when a language dies, a way of understanding the world dies with it, a way of looking at the world. ”
― Steiner G

“Often it’s not we who shape words, but the words we use that shape us.”
― Nina George, The Little Paris Bookshop

“The only languages which do not change are dead ones.”
― David Crystal