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

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.

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

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.

It is no secret that the fruits of language study are in no sort of relation to the labour spent on teaching and learning them.

Human beings do not wish to be modest; they want to be as expressive - that is, as immodest - as fear allows; fashion helps them solve that paradoxical problem.

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