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“And if Germans do have systematic minds, this is just as likely to be because their exceedingly erratic mother tongue has exhausted their brains' capacity to cope with any further irregularity”

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“we see in essence not with two eyes but with three: with the two eyes of the body and with the eye of the…

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“And if Germans do have systematic minds, this is just as likely to be because their exceedingly erratic mother tongue has exhausted their brains'…

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Language is mankind’s greatest invention – except, of course, that it was never invented.

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“Anyone who has tried to learn a foreign language knows only too dearly that languages can be full of pointless irregularities that increase complexity…

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“Language is mankind's greatest inventiom… that it was never invented.”

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