Fashion is custom in the guise of departure from custom

A logical analysis of reflexive usages in French shows, however, that this simplicity is an illusion and that, so far from helping the foreigner, it is more calculated to bother him.

I am convinced that the stratigraphic method will in the future enable archaeology to throw far more light on the history of American culture than it has done in the past.

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

Fashion is custom in the guise of departure from custom

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.