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

— Edward Sapir

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No important national language, at least in the Occidental world, has complete regularity of grammatical structure, nor is there a single logical category which is adequately and consistently handled in terms of linguistic symbolism. ↗

— Edward Sapir

#category #complete #consistently #grammatical #handled

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

#another #because #beyond #control #different

The British have slang words, as we do, but it was fun. ↗

— Dennis Farina

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It is a sore point, because you do have advantages if you have access to more than one language. You also have problems, because on bad days you don't trust yourself, either in your first or your second language, and so you feel like a complete halfwit. ↗

— W. G. Sebald

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England and America are two countries separated by the same language. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

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Words are our life. We are human because we use language. So I think we are less human when we use less language. ↗

— Carol Shields

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The iconoclastic mode, that specific mode of language, there is an element of it that it is punk - that is confrontational. That's just a part of the language of jazz - at a certain point. ↗

— Matthew Shipp

#certain point #confrontational #element #iconoclastic #jazz

Fritz Lang was one of my dearest, dearest friends. I loved working with him. ↗

— Sylvia Sidney

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Tim and Fritz Lang I loved working with. Not Hitchcock so much. There was no communication. ↗

— Sylvia Sidney

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