"A person who understands both my
language and your own.
In
language there is no direct way of designating one of the ultimate brief existents that go to make up the collections we call things or persons.
After a while, with the parrot's help, the Doctor got to learn the
language of the animals so well that he could talk to them himself and understand everything they said.
Surely there is not another
language that is so slipshod and systemless, and so slippery and elusive to the grasp.
Then Britain became Angleland or England, and the
language was no longer Celtic, but English.
It may be translated into every
language, and not only be read but actually breathed from all human lips; -- not be represented on canvas or in marble only, but be carved out of the breath of life itself.
They evidently understood neither the
language of England nor of France.
If he could not teach
languages, at least he could learn
languages.
But the state lieth in all
languages of good and evil; and whatever it saith it lieth; and whatever it hath it hath stolen.
It must not be supposed, notwithstanding, that the Normans, however much they despised the English
language and literature, made any effort to destroy it.
This was my bed all the time I staid with those people, though made more convenient by degrees, as I began to learn their
language and make my wants known.
D'Arnot knew a few words of Norwegian, Russian, Greek, and also had a smattering of the
language of one of the West Coast negro tribes--the man denied them all.