“Culture, of course, is an extremely vague word, covering everything from the shaping of hand-axes to corporate mission statements, as well as the finer appreciation of the sonnets of Shakespeare and the paintings of Hokusai;” — Nicholas Ostler Copy Share Image
“A language brings with it a mass of perceptions, clichés, judgements and inspirations.” — Nicholas Ostler Copy Share Image
“with the exception of Chinese, even the languages that originated writing, and so made the earliest use of it, have dropped their original system,… — Nicholas Ostler Copy Share Image
“over half the languages in the world, for example, have fewer than five thousand speakers, and over a thousand languages have under a dozen.” — Nicholas Ostler Copy Share Image
“Culture, of course, is an extremely vague word, covering everything from the shaping of hand-axes to corporate mission statements, as well as the finer… — Nicholas Ostler Copy Share Image
