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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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"Words are clothes that thoughts wear."
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"Chameleonesque, hobbitish, unicorned, stompled, selfishism, and unwakeable may not be real words, but you do know what they mean."
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"It is very useful, when one is young, to learn the difference between "literally" and "figuratively." If something happens literally, it actually happens; if something happens figuratively, it feels like it is happening. If you are literally jumping for joy, for instance, it means you are leaping in the air because you are very happy. If you are figuratively jumping for joy, it means you are so happy that you could jump for joy, but are saving your energy for other matters."
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"NE'TWORK: Any thing reticulated or decussated, at equal distances, with interstices between the intersections.......RETI'CULATED: Made of network; formed with interstitial vacuities."
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"Sometimes the fluffy bunny of incredulity zooms round the bend so rapidly that the greyhound of language is left, agog, in the starting cage."
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"I want to hear you wound my lovely language with your rough barbarian tongue."
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"The world is built with words."
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"Sanskrit has different words to describe love for a brother or sister, love for a teacher, love for a partner, love for one's friends, love of nature, and so on. English has only one word, which leads to never-ending confusion."
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"The first thing we should do in order to grasp the realm of time travel is by redefining general perception and common concepts regarding time within our daily language structure."
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"The wonder of words."
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"It is quite an illusion to imagine that one adjusts to reality essentially without the use of language and that language is merely an incidental means of solving specific problems of communication or reflection."
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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."
Language
"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."
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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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"More and more, unsolicited gifts from without are likely to be received with unconscious resentment."
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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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"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."
Attitude
"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."
Adoption
"In a sense, every form of expression is imposed upon one by social factors, one's own language above all."
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