Japanese Vocabulary/grammar

Famous quotes containing the words japanese, vocabulary and/or grammar:

    “In fact, the whole of Japan is a pure invention. There is no such country, there are no such people.... The Japanese people are ... simply a mode of style, an exquisite fancy of art.”
    —Oscar Wilde (1854–1900)

    “[T]here is no breaking out of the intentional vocabulary by explaining its members in other terms.”
    —Willard Van Orman Quine (b. 1908)

    “The new grammar of race is constructed in a way that George Orwell would have appreciated, because its rules make some ideas impossible to express—unless, of course, one wants to be called a racist.”
    —Stephen Carter (b. 1954)