Guy Deutscher

Quotes

• “So if you, O subsequent ones, ever deign to look down at us from your summit of effortless superiority, remember that yo...”
• “And if Germans do have systematic minds, this is just as likely to be because their exceedingly erratic mother tongue ha...”
• “Really, it is unfair to say that English spelling is not an accurate rendering of speech. It is – it's only that it rend...”
• “Language is mankind's greatest inventiom… that it was never invented.”