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- Community
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- Nov 07, 2020
We see and hear and otherwise experience very largely as we do because the language habits of our community predispose certain choices of interpretation.
- Creation
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- Nov 07, 2020
A common creation demands a common sacrifice, and perhaps not the least potent argument in favour of a constructed international language is the fact that it is equally foreign, or apparently so, to the traditions of all nationalities.
- Long Time
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- Nov 07, 2020
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 long time to have solved the international language problem up to a certain point, they did not really do so in spirit.
- Only
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- Nov 07, 2020
English, once accepted as an international language, is no more secure than French has proved to be as the one and only accepted language of diplomacy or as Latin has proved to be as the international language of science.
- Own
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- Nov 07, 2020
In a sense, every form of expression is imposed upon one by social factors, one's own language above all.
- Grammatical
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- Nov 07, 2020
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 adequately and consistently handled in terms of linguistic symbolism.
- How
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- Nov 07, 2020
So far as the advocates of a constructed international language are concerned, it is rather to be wondered at how much in common their proposals actually have, both in vocabulary and in general spirit of procedure.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
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 see himself as the master of language instead of its obedient servant.
- Control
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- Nov 07, 2020
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 the psychology of a language which one accepts of one's free will.
- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020
The style of an author should be the image of his mind, but the choice and command of language is the fruit of exercise.
- Left
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- Nov 07, 2020
My English text is chaste, and all licentious passages are left in the decent obscurity of a learned language.
- Learn
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- Nov 07, 2020
You have to learn the language of Hamlet.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020