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French and German illustrate the misleading character of apparent grammatical simplicity just as well. ↗

— Edward Sapir

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Henceforth, language studies were no longer directed merely towards correcting grammar. ↗

— Ferdinand de Saussure

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The first of these phases is that of grammar, invented by the Greeks and carried on unchanged by the French. It never had any philosophical view of a language as such. ↗

— Ferdinand de Saussure

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In general, the philological movement opened up countless sources relevant to linguistic issues, treating them in quite a different spirit from traditional grammar; for instance, the study of inscriptions and their language. But not yet in the spirit of linguistics. ↗

— Ferdinand de Saussure

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Be able to correctly pronounce the words you would like to speak and have excellent spoken grammar. ↗

— Marilyn vos Savant

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In fifty years of covering the sport, of course Muhammad Ali is by far the dominant figure. ↗

— Dick Schaap

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Obviously, if the commander makes certain decisions that the reporter thinks is inhibiting his right to report a legitimate story, he has to appeal to the commander's boss to get that changed. ↗

— Bob Schieffer

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The things I was allowed to experience, the people I was able to call friends, teammates, mentors, coaches and opponents, the travel, all of it, are far more than anything I ever thought possible in my lifetime. ↗

— Curt Schilling

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The terrorists who committed the 2003 Istanbul attacks were locals, that is, Turks. And when filmmaker Theo van Gogh was murdered in the Netherlands last year, the murderer and his supporters were also part of the Muslim community. ↗

— Otto Schily

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He who commands an Apollo flight will not command a second one. ↗

— Wally Schirra

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