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Arika Okrent Quotes

born 1970 United States

Arika Okrent is an American linguist, known especially for her book In the Land of Invented Languages: Esperanto Rock Stars, Klingon Poets, Loglan Lovers, and the Mad Dreamers Who Tried to Build A Perfect Language, the result of five years of research on the subject of constructed languages.

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Language really isn't about information transmission. You speak a language in order to join the group that speaks that language.

"English is also very prolific borrower of words from other languages, but that’s not entirely to blame for the inconsistencies"

"I enjoy looking at paintings, but I have no desire to paint. That impulse isn’t in me, and I wouldn’t be any good at it without it"

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Arika Okrent (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.