"The main effect of the Internet on language has been to increase the expressive richness of language, providing the language with a new set of communicative dimensions that haven't existed in the past,".

VOA: standard.2010.01.16

So, language is this communal set of rumors spiritualized by its very vagueness and shared quality.

因此，语言以其模棱两可的特性,营造出这种精神化的谣传的公社氛围。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

By "difficult," it is meant, I think, well, first of all that it is in some sense set apart from common speech, as a specialized and highly self-conscious use of language.

艰深“的意思，我认为，首先，某种程度上它是和平时谈话有所不同的，专业性极强，对语言运用自知也很高。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

We do not have a language for that, or a set of activities for that.

我们没有共同的语言，也没有一系列的活动来做这件事。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

A high-level language, the designer has created a much richer set of primitive things.

一个高级的语言，设计者制造了丰富的,原始要素。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

Three: they declare that language is always mediated, always mediating, that your experience of people is never clear of some set of meanings that someone else has assigned to it.

他们声称语言一直被调停，也一直在调停，凭借你们对人们的认识，永远无法弄清,其他人赋予的意义。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

He addresses instead the English language: "Hail native Language," Milton begins, and then he proceeds to set out in his heroic couplets of iambic pentameter a map for his future career as a famous poet.

反而写了英语这门语言：,开头写道，“为本土语言欢呼吧“,然后继续写他的五音部短长格对句,这是著名诗人对未来事业的规划。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

There are all kinds of little abbreviations they make, ; and it suggests that language has to be wrenched out of its conventions; syntax can be set aside; language needs to move at the speed of experience and at the speed of ecstasy.

他们创造了各种缩写，好像语言必须得被扭曲得偏离原样;,语法可以被搁置一边，语言需要以体验和,忘形的速度移动。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选