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    Edward Sapir

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    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

    #business #countries #does #driven #enormous

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


    — Edward Sapir

    #likely #more #more and more #received #resentment

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


    — Edward Sapir

    #huge #inquiry #interests #languages #national

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


    — Edward Sapir

    #ever #languages #reality #representing #same

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


    — Edward Sapir

    #glories #noun #possibility #same #simplicity

    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. ↗


    — Edward Sapir

    #allow #analysis #blend #form #international

    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

    #constructed #course #criticism #idea #inferiority

    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

    #appearances #apply #contrary #could #english

    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

    #certain #choices #community #experience #habits

    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

    #course #crowd #dear #heart #hopeless






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    Ishi died of his illness in early 1916 and Kroeber partly blamed the exacting nature of working with Sapir for his failure to recover. In the end Sapir didn't finish the work during the allotted year and Kroeber was unable to offer him a longer appointment. His students included Fang-kuei Li Benjamin Whorf Mary Haas and Harry Hoijer.

    While finishing his PhD he went to California to work with Alfred Kroeber documenting the indigenous languages there. Before Sapir it was generally considered impossible to apply the methods of historical linguistics to languages of indigenous peoples because they were believed to be more primitive than the Indo-European languages. Later in his career he also worked with Yiddish Hebrew and Chinese as well as Germanic languages and he was also invested in the development of an International Auxiliary Language.

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