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Edward Sapir
American
January 26, 1884
Scientist
National languages are all huge systems of vested interests which sullenly resist critical inquiry.
Edward Sapir
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No two languages are ever sufficiently similar to be considered as representing the same social reality.
Edward Sapir
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We see and hear and otherwise experience very largely as we do because the language habits of our community predispose certain choices of interpretation.
Edward Sapir
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Comparison of statements made at different periods frequently enable us to give maximal and minimal dates to the appearance of a cultural element or to assign the time limits to a movement of population.
Edward Sapir
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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.
Edward Sapir
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