It Is No Secret That

In A Sense, Every Form Of Expression Is Imposed Upon One By Social Factors, One's Own Language Above All.

It Would, Of Course, Be Hopeless To Attempt To Crowd Into An International Language All Those Local Overtones Of Meaning Which Are So Dear To The Heart Of The Nationalist.

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 Psychology Of A Language Which, In One Way Or Another, Is Imposed Upon One Because Of Factors Beyond One's Control, Is Very Different From The Psychology Of A Language Which One Accepts Of One's Free Will.

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.