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

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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.

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

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• ‟ 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.

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• ‟ 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.

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• ‟ English, once accepted as an international language, is no more secure than French has proved to be as the one and only accepted language of diplomacy or as Latin has proved to be as the international language of science.

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• ‟ It is no secret that the fruits of language study are in no sort of relation to the labour spent on teaching and learning them.

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• ‟ 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.

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• ‟ 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.

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