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"Language is a social art."
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"Uncritical semantics is the myth of a museum in which the exhibits are meanings and the words are labels. To switch languages is to change the labels."
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"'Ouch' is not independent of social training. One has only to prick a foreigner to appreciate that it is an English word."
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