National Languages Are All Huge

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.

One Of The Glories Of English Simplicity Is The Possibility Of Using The Same Word As Noun And Verb.

We See And Hear And Otherwise Experience Very Largely As We Do Because The Language Habits Of Our Community Predispose Certain Choices Of Interpretation.

Human Beings Do Not Wish To Be Modest; They Want To Be As Expressive - That Is, As Immodest - As Fear Allows; Fashion Helps Them Solve That Paradoxical Problem.

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.