LANGUAGE.

“He recalls what he meant, and she recalls what she heard. But what he intended was not what she understood–which was what she would have meant if she had said what he said in the way he said it.”

~Deborah Tannen, communication expert~

and author of, among others, That’s Not What I Meant! How Conversational Style Makes or Breaks Relationships, 1986, p. 27



“A lot of movies try to set up a world with cool sets, costumes, camera work. In Brick, the world is born from the words.”

~Joseph Gordon-Levitt, actor~

www.imdb.com/name/nm0330687/



“The three oddest words:

When I pronounce the word Future, the first syllable already belongs to the past.
When I pronounce the word Silence, I destroy it.
When I pronounce the word Nothing, I make something no non-being can hold.”



“art is a LANGUAGE”

~Susan Sontag, writer~

1966 journal entry, reprinted in New York Times Magazine, 9-10-06, p. 57. To be published in 2008



“Why isn’t phonetic spelled the way it sounds?”

~1997 e-mail forward~



“The limits of my language mark the limits of my world.”

~Ludwig Wittgenstein, philosopher~

New York Public Library calendar book, 2006



“American Sign Language: seeing you loud and clear.”

~Lisa Kasamoto, interpreter~

and t-shirt designer. 2007, www.cafepress.com/backwardpress



“Spoken language travels at the speed of sound; sign language travels at the speed of light.”

~Robert Arnold, Deaf community member~

New York City



“‘Language of One’ – Yet another play about a Deaf, gay, Jewish architect falling in love.”

~New York Deaf Theater~



“I am a bear of little brain and long words bother me.”

~Winnie the Pooh~

character by A.A. Milne



http://www.sawlady.com/ – “music on the cutting edge”

~ad in subway car~

New York City, 2006



“‘Feminism, my foot!’ exclaimed my mother as she cremated the meatloaf. ‘This feminism thing is just a cover for being a lesbian.’ Perhaps this is not an exact quote; you see, my parents’ first language was silence and I’ve had to translate here.”

~Holly Hughes, writer~

in the anthology, A Woman Like That, ed. by Joan Larkin, 1999, p. 135



“Aoccdrnig to rsceearh at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn’t mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoatnt tighng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be at the rghit pclae. The rset can be a total mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe.”

~2003 e-mail forward~



“Small words. Big thoughts.”

~Winnie the Pooh~

character by A.A. Milne