Joseph H. Greenberg Quotes

• A speaker is like a lousy auto mechanic: Every time he fixes something in the language, he screws up something else.

  Joseph H. Greenberg

  Screw Ups, Language, Mechanic

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• The ultimate goal is a comprehensive classification of what is very likely a single language family. The implications of such a classification for the origin and history of our species would, of course, be very great.

  Joseph H. Greenberg

  Goal, Language, Classification

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• I heard Yiddish when my father's family came to the house, which was as seldom as my mother could arrange it.

  Joseph H. Greenberg

  Mother, Father, House

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