Showing posts with label language. Show all posts
Showing posts with label language. Show all posts

Saturday, December 6, 2008

I thought you said you were satisfied


Just as those receiving blood transfusions run the viral risk of AIDS, so those receiving language transfusions run the viral risk of the contamination of meaning.

by Jean Baudrillard from Fragments

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Sunday, November 9, 2008

Problems, problems, problems


To learn one language is not a problem and to understand others' arts as a result of learning their language is also not a problem. The problem is the impossibility of a real intuitional adaptation to the language of others.

by Muammar Al Qathafi from The Green Book