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

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.

It is quite an illusion to imagine that one adjusts to reality essentially without the use of language and that language is merely an incidental means of solving specific problems of communication or reflection.

More and more, unsolicited gifts from without are likely to be received with unconscious resentment.

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

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.

Fashion is custom in the guise of departure from custom