For tens, and perhaps hundreds, of thousands of years, people regarded language as a holy instrument that let… — Peter Farb
For tens, and perhaps hundreds, of thousands of years, people regarded language as a holy instrument that let them look out upon the world... Only in the last few decades have people suspected that their window on the world has a glass that gives a distorted view.
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Each language encourages its speakers to tell certain things and to ignore other things.
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Wilhelm von Humboldt... stated that the structure of language expresses the inner life of its speakers: "Man lives with the world about him, principally, indeed exclusively, as language presents it."
