A firm, for instance, that does business in many countries of the world is driven to spend an enormous amount of time, labour, and money in providing for translation services.

Were a language ever completely "grammatical" it would be a perfect engine of conceptual expression. Unfortunately, or luckily, no language is tyrannically consistent. All grammars leak.

We see and hear and otherwise experience very largely as we do because the language habits of our community predispose certain choices of interpretation.

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

The fact of the matter is that the 'real world' is to a large extent unconsciously built up on the language habits of the group.

Impatience translates itself into a desire to have something immediate done about it all, and, as is generally the case with impatience, resolves itself in the easiest way that lies ready to hand.

A second type of direct evidence is formed by statements, whether as formal legends or personal information, regarding the age or relative sequence of events in tribal history made by the natives themselves.