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.

What fetters the mind and benumbs the spirit is ever the dogged acceptance of absolutes.

Both French and Latin are involved with nationalistic and religious implications which could not be entirely shaken off, and so, while they seemed for a long time to have solved the international language problem up to a certain point, they did not really do so in spirit.

No two languages are ever sufficiently similar to be considered as representing the same social reality.

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

Nonverbal communication is an elaborate secret code that is written nowhere, known by none, and understood by all.

As a matter of fact, a national language which spreads beyond its own confines very quickly loses much of its original richness of content and is in no better case than a constructed language.