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Edward Sapir

Language is the most massive ...

Language is the most massive and inclusive art we know, a mountainous and anonymous work of unconscious generations.

Edward Sapir 81 quotes
Edward Sapir

Fashion is custom in the guis...

Fashion is custom in the guise of departure from custom

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Edward Sapir

English, once accepted as an ...

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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Edward Sapir

Impatience translates itself ...

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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Edward Sapir

One of the glories of English...

One of the glories of English simplicity is the possibility of using the same word as noun and verb.

Edward Sapir 81 quotes
Edward Sapir

These examples of the lack of...

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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Edward Sapir

As a matter of fact, a nation...

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.

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Edward Sapir

A firm, for instance, that do...

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 81 quotes
Edward Sapir

The spirit of logical analysi...

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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Edward Sapir

Both French and Latin are invo...

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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Edward Sapir

Comparison of statements made ...

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 81 quotes
Edward Sapir

As a matter of fact, a nationa...

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 81 quotes
Edward Sapir

A logical analysis of reflexiv...

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 81 quotes
Edward Sapir

A standard international langu...

A standard international language should not only be simple, regular, and logical, but also rich and creative.

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Edward Sapir

A second type of direct eviden...

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 81 quotes
Edward Sapir

These examples of the lack of ...

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 81 quotes
Edward Sapir

We see and hear and otherwise ...

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 81 quotes
Edward Sapir

More and more, unsolicited gif...

More and more, unsolicited gifts from without are likely to be received with unconscious resentment.

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Edward Sapir

Human beings do not live in th...

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.

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Edward Sapir

A common allegiance to form of...

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 81 quotes

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