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Edward Sapir Quotes & Sayings
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No two languages are ever sufficiently similar to be considered as representing the same social reality.
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In a sense, every form of expression is imposed upon one by social factors, one's own language above all.
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One of the glories of English simplicity is the possibility of using the same word as noun and verb.
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Cultural anthropology is more and more rapidly getting to realize itself as a strictly historical science.
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A standard international language should not only be simple, regular, and logical, but also rich and creative.
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French and German illustrate the misleading character of apparent grammatical simplicity just as well.
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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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National languages are all huge systems of vested interests which sullenly resist critical inquiry.
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It is no secret that the fruits of language study are in no sort of relation to the labour spent on teaching and learning them.
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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 the heart of the nationalist.
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A logical analysis of reflexive usages in French shows, however, that this simplicity is an illusion and that, so far from helping the foreigner, it is more calculated to bother him.
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I am convinced that the stratigraphic method will in the future enable archaeology to throw far more light on the history of American culture than it has done in the past.
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These examples of the lack of simplicity in English and French, all appearances to the contrary, could be multiplied almost without limit and apply to all national languages.
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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.
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The spirit of logical analysis should in practice blend with the practical pressure for the adoption of some form of international language, but it should not allow itself to be stampeded by it.
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More and more, unsolicited gifts from without are likely to be received with unconscious resentment.
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A common allegiance to form of expression that is identified with no single national unit is likely to prove one of the most potent symbols of the freedom of the human spirit that the world has yet known.
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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.
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A firm, for instance, that does business in many countries of the world is driven to spend an enormous amount of time, labour, and money in providing for translation services.
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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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