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Re: looking for a linguistical/semiotic quote

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Date 2013-06-27 21:19 +1000
Subject Re: looking for a linguistical/semiotic quote
From Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com>
Newsgroups comp.lang.python
Message-ID <mailman.3919.1372331966.3114.python-list@python.org> (permalink)

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On Thu, Jun 27, 2013 at 9:14 PM, rusi <rustompmody@gmail.com> wrote:
> I am looking for a quote
> (from Whorf/Sapir/Wittgenstein/Humboldt dunno... that 'school')
>
> It goes something like this:
>
> What characterizes a language is not what we can say in it but what we must -- like it or not -- say.

I think you may be looking for Larry Wall's statement in his State of
the Onion talk:

http://www.perl.com/pub/2007/12/06/soto-11.html

He's comparing human and programming languages and says pretty much
what you're saying. Of couse, he's probably not the first person to
have made that remark in some form or another... so you may still be
looking for someone else.

ChrisA

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looking for a linguistical/semiotic quote rusi <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2013-06-27 04:14 -0700
  Re: looking for a linguistical/semiotic quote Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-06-27 21:19 +1000
    Re: looking for a linguistical/semiotic quote rusi <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2013-06-27 04:34 -0700
  Re: looking for a linguistical/semiotic quote Vlastimil Brom <vlastimil.brom@gmail.com> - 2013-06-27 14:10 +0200
    Re: looking for a linguistical/semiotic quote rusi <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2013-06-27 05:25 -0700

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