Edward Sapir ,quotes

It would, of course, be hopele...

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 28.11.2012 05:37:12 81 quotes

It is well known that the tens...

It is well known that the tense systems of French, English and German teem with logical inconsistencies as they are actually used.

Edward Sapir 28.11.2012 05:37:01 81 quotes

It is true that English is not...

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 28.11.2012 05:36:54 81 quotes

In a sense, every form of expr...

In a sense, every form of expression is imposed upon one by social factors, one's own language above all.

Edward Sapir 28.11.2012 05:36:35 81 quotes

Impatience translates itself i...

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 28.11.2012 05:36:30 81 quotes

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.

Edward Sapir 28.11.2012 05:36:16 81 quotes

During the more than four hund...

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 28.11.2012 05:35:55 81 quotes

Cultural anthropology is more ...

Cultural anthropology is more and more rapidly getting to realize itself as a strictly historical science.

Edward Sapir 28.11.2012 05:35:50 81 quotes

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.

Edward Sapir 28.11.2012 05:35:38 81 quotes

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 28.11.2012 05:35:12 81 quotes

A firm, for instance, that doe...

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 28.11.2012 05:35:06 81 quotes

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 28.11.2012 05:34:53 81 quotes

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 28.11.2012 05:33:48 81 quotes

The supposed inferiority of a ...

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 28.11.2012 05:33:31 81 quotes

The psychology of a language w...

The psychology of a language which, in one way or another, is imposed upon one because of factors beyond one's control, is very different from the psychology of a language which one accepts of one's free will.

Edward Sapir 28.11.2012 05:33:22 81 quotes

The attitude of independence t...

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 28.11.2012 05:33:06 81 quotes

So far as the advocates of a c...

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 28.11.2012 05:32:56 81 quotes

No two languages are ever suff...

No two languages are ever sufficiently similar to be considered as representing the same social reality.

Edward Sapir 28.11.2012 05:32:46 81 quotes

National languages are all hug...

National languages are all huge systems of vested interests which sullenly resist critical inquiry.

Edward Sapir 28.11.2012 05:32:36 81 quotes

More and more, unsolicited gif...

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

Edward Sapir 28.11.2012 05:32:25 81 quotes

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