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Edward Sapir Quotes
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. - Edward Sapir Quotes
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. - Edward Sapir Quotes
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. - Edward Sapir Quotes
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. - Edward Sapir Quotes
A second type of direct evidence is formed by statements, whether as formal legends or personal information, regarding the age or relative sequence of events in tribal history made by the natives themselves. - Edward Sapir Quotes
A standard international language should not only be simple, regular, and logical, but also rich and creative. - Edward Sapir Quotes
As a matter of fact, a national language which spreads beyond its own confines very quickly loses much of its original richness of content and is in no better case than a constructed language. - Edward Sapir Quotes
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. - Edward Sapir Quotes
Comparison of statements made at different periods frequently enable us to give maximal and minimal dates to the appearance of a cultural element or to assign the time limits to a movement of population. - Edward Sapir Quotes
Cultural anthropology is more and more rapidly getting to realize itself as a strictly historical science. - Edward Sapir Quotes
During the more than four hundred years that have elapsed since the discovery of America, the native cultures have naturally not been static. - Edward Sapir Quotes
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 Quotes
French and German illustrate the misleading character of apparent grammatical simplicity just as well. - Edward Sapir Quotes
Human beings do not live in the objective world alone, nor alone in the world of social activity as ordinarily understood, but are very much at the mercy of the particular language which has become the medium of expression for their society. - Edward Sapir Quotes
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. - Edward Sapir Quotes
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. - Edward Sapir Quotes
In a sense, every form of expression is imposed upon one by social factors, ones own language above all. - Edward Sapir Quotes
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. - Edward Sapir Quotes
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. - Edward Sapir Quotes
It is true that English is not as complex in its formal structure as is German or Latin, but this does not dispose of the matter. - Edward Sapir Quotes
It is well known that the tense systems of French, English and German teem with logical inconsistencies as they are actually used. - Edward Sapir Quotes
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. - Edward Sapir Quotes
More and more, unsolicited gifts from without are likely to be received with unconscious resentment. - Edward Sapir Quotes
National languages are all huge systems of vested interests which sullenly resist critical inquiry. - Edward Sapir Quotes
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. - Edward Sapir Quotes
No two languages are ever sufficiently similar to be considered as representing the same social reality. - Edward Sapir Quotes
One of the glories of English simplicity is the possibility of using the same word as noun and verb. - Edward Sapir Quotes
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. - Edward Sapir Quotes
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. - Edward Sapir Quotes
The modern mind tends to be more and more critical and analytical in spirit, hence it must devise for itself an engine of expression which is logically defensible at every point and which tends to correspond to the rigorous spirit of modern science. - Edward Sapir Quotes
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