Roman Jakobson

When I speak it is in order to be heard.

For example, the opposition between acute and grave phonemes has the capacity to suggest an image of bright and dark, of pointed and rounded, of thin and thick, of light and heavy, etc.

Linguistic sounds, considered as external, physical phenomena have two aspects, the motor and the acoustic.

By sincerity, a man gains physical, mental and linguistic straightforwardness, and harmonious tendency; that is, congruence of speech and action.

I believe that Mexico, geographically, is located in a privileged position. We serve as the meeting point with North America and the rest of Latin America.

The Gulf of Mexico, they believe, is a huge asteroid. That was an impact zone, you know that? Yeah, for that big a thing to actually hit our globe, it would have had to adjusted the spin, the axis.