More and more, unsolicited gifts from without are likely to be received with unconscious resentment.
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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.Edward Sapir
No two languages are ever sufficiently similar to be considered as representing the same social reality.
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French and German illustrate the misleading character of apparent grammatical simplicity just as well.
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Impatience translates itself into a desire to have something immediate done about it all, and, as is generally the case with impatience, resolves itself in the easiest way that lies ready to hand.
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We see and hear and otherwise experience very largely as we do because the language habits of our community predispose certain choices of interpretation.
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