Language Competency

Famous quotes containing the words language and/or competency:

    It is still not enough for language to have clarity and content ... it must also have a goal and an imperative. Otherwise from language we descend to chatter, from chatter to babble and from babble to confusion.
    René Daumal (1908–1944)

    Superfluity comes sooner by white hairs, but competency lives longer.
    William Shakespeare (1564–1616)