Irregular Verbs Quotes

• I spent 20 years doing research on regular and irregular verbs, not because I'm an obsessive language lover but because it seemed to me that they tapped into a fundamental distinction in language processing, indeed in cognitive processing, between memory lookup and rule-driven computation.

  Steven Pinker

  Memories, Years, Verbs

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• Los 10 verbos más utilizados en inglés son todos irregulares, a pesar de que sólo representan el 3% de la lengua.

  Erez Lieberman Aiden

  Top 10, Verbs, Language

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• Human relations are like the irregular verbs in a number of languages where nearly all verbs are irregular.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Numbers, Verbs, Language

  Soren Kierkegaard (2015). “Papers and Journals”, p.62, Penguin UK

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• Hay facturas que pagar, máquinas que mantener en buen estado,
  verbos irregulares que aprender, el tiempo que redimir
  De la insignificancia.

  W. H. Auden

  Responsibility, Verbs, Machines

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• You wouldn't believe the kind of hate mail I get about my work on irregular verbs.

  Steven Pinker

  Hate, Believe, Verbs

  "Basic instincts". Interview with Oliver Burkeman, www.theguardian.com. September 22, 2007.

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• No hay nada como una educación escocesa. Uno se queda con una deuda irreparable. Todavía tengo la cabeza llena de verbos irregulares.

  Ivor Cutler

  Scotch, Scotland, Verbs

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