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

Cultural anthropology is not valuable because it uncovers the archaic in the psychological sense. It is valuable because it is constantly rediscovering the normal.

Human beings do not live in the objective world alone, nor alone in the world of social activity as ordinarily understood, but are very much at the mercy of the particular language which has become the medium of expression for their society.

Language is an anonymous, collective and unconscious art; the result of the creativity of thousands of generations.

One of the glories of English simplicity is the possibility of using the same word as noun and verb.

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