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.

Fashion is custom in the guise of departure from custom

Cultural anthropology is more and more rapidly getting to realize itself as a strictly historical science.

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.

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

Language is the most massive and inclusive art we know, a mountainous and anonymous work of unconscious generations.

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.