Notable Quotes

ENGLISH will be in ICU and covered in plasters judging from the rate at which it’s being broken at #NAMAs2013. – @JosefAmwandi commented on The Namibian’s Twittersphere section’s Namibia Annual Music Awards discussions.

WE remain deeply concerned about the safety of students who don’t live on campus. – UFS spokesperson Lacea Loader said after a young student was raped five times by hijackers who attacked her and a friend in Bloemfontein.

WHEN the economy is good the skirt lengths get shorter. – Says 20-year-old Japanese girl band member Yuki Sakora as she commented on Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s new economic programme, dubbed “Abenomics”.

From The History Books
LANGUAGE shapes the way we think, and determines what we can think about. – Benjamin Lee Whorf (24 April 1897 – 26 July 1941) was an American linguist and fire prevention engineer. Whorf is widely known as an advocate for the idea that because of linguistic differences in grammar and usage, speakers of different languages conceptualise and experience the world differently. This principle has frequently been called the ‘Sapir–Whorf hypothesis’, after him and his mentor Edward Sapir, but Whorf called it the principle of linguistic relativity, because he saw the idea as having implications similar to Einstein’s principle of physical relativity.

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