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

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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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• ‟ 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.

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

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• ‟ 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