“How can I tell what I think till I see what I say?”— E.M. Forster Related Quotes “The linguistic system represented in the mind-brain gives some account of everything submitted to it: good sentences, bad sentences, sentences in other languages, ums and ahs, coughs; perhaps -Chomsky suggests- even to non-linguistic events like a squeaking door.”— Neilson Voyne Smith “Isn’t language amazing? I can’t get over it. Sometimes you can just say things and its like a bomb that blows all your clothes off and suddenly there you are naked. I don’t know if its disgusting or beautiful.”— Victor Lodato “Many people just think they understand English, remember.”— Emma Wagner