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- The psychology of a language which, in one way or another, is imposed upon one because of factors beyond one's control, is very different from…
- Human beings do not live in the objective world alone, nor alone in the world of social activity as ordinarily understood, but are very much…
- As a matter of fact, a national language which spreads beyond its own confines very quickly loses much of its original richness of content and…
- Both French and Latin are involved with nationalistic and religious implications which could not be entirely shaken off, and so, while they seemed for a…
- It would, of course, be hopeless to attempt to crowd into an international language all those local overtones of meaning which are so dear to…
- No important national language, at least in the Occidental world, has complete regularity of grammatical structure, nor is there a single logical category which is…
- The attitude of independence toward a constructed language which all national speakers must adopt is really a great advantage, because it tends to make man…
- National languages are all huge systems of vested interests which sullenly resist critical inquiry.
- The modern mind tends to be more and more critical and analytical in spirit, hence it must devise for itself an engine of expression which…
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