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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. ↗

— Edward Sapir

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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. ↗

— Edward Sapir

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The supposed inferiority of a constructed language to a national one on the score of richness of connotation is, of course, no criticism of the idea of a constructed language. ↗

— Edward Sapir

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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. ↗

— Edward Sapir

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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. ↗

— Edward Sapir

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Perhaps it is the language that chooses the writers it needs, making use of them so that each might express a tiny part of what it is. ↗

— Jose Saramago

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My mother always told me I had to do 100 times better than a man. I had to work hard at maths, and learn four languages. ↗

— Marjane Satrapi

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Henceforth, language studies were no longer directed merely towards correcting grammar. ↗

— Ferdinand de Saussure

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Any psychology of sign systems will be part of social psychology - that is to say, will be exclusively social; it will involve the same psychology as is applicable in the case of languages. ↗

— Ferdinand de Saussure

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The first of these phases is that of grammar, invented by the Greeks and carried on unchanged by the French. It never had any philosophical view of a language as such. ↗

— Ferdinand de Saussure

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