 | Anastasios-Phoivos Christidēs, Maria Arapopoulou, Maria Chritē - 2007 - 43 pages
...with equal justice may the lexicographer be derided, who being able to produce no example of a nation that has preserved their words and phrases from mutability,...language, and secure it from corruption and decay." BIBLIOGRAPHY i The nature of language, A. -r. CHRISTIDIS AGAMBEN, D. iggi. Le Langage etla inert. Paris:... | |
 | Naomi S. Baron Professor of Linguistics American University - 2008 - 305 pages
...well. A lexicographer, he wrote, should be derided, who being able to produce no example of a nation that has preserved their words and phrases from mutability, shall imagine that his dictionary can embalm language. When it came to recording pronunciation, once and for all, Johnson was equally adamant about... | |
 | Mark Abley - 2008 - 284 pages
...its 2,300 closely printed pages were published, he knew that any lexicographer would be foolish to imagine that "his dictionary can embalm his language, and secure it from corruption and decay." So the vigilance of language academies in France and Italy must be in vain: "Sounds are too volatile... | |
 | A.W. Ward - 1967 - 484 pages
...prolong life to a thousand years ; and with equal justice may the lexicographer be derided, who . . . shall imagine that his dictionary can embalm his language,...that it is in his power to change sublunary nature, or clear the world at once from folly, vanity, and affectation. With this hope, however, academies... | |
 | 314 pages
...with justice would 'the lexicographer be derided, who, being able to produce no example of a nation that has preserved their words and phrases from mutability, shall imagine that his dictionary can secure his language from corruption and decay, that it is in his power to change sublunary nature,... | |
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When we see men grow old and die at a certain time one after another, from century to century, we laugh at the elixir that promises to prolong life to a thousand years; and with equal justice may the lexicographer be derided who, being able to produce... 
