Word/morphology

Famous quotes containing the words word and/or morphology:

“The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.”
—Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)

“I ascribe a basic importance to the phenomenon of language.... To speak means to be in a position to use a certain syntax, to grasp the morphology of this or that language, but it means above all to assume a culture, to support the weight of a civilization.”
—Frantz Fanon (1925–1961)