Language Is The Most Massive

These Examples Of The Lack Of Simplicity In English And French, All Appearances To The Contrary, Could Be Multiplied Almost Without Limit And Apply To All National Languages.

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.

Fashion Is Custom In The Guise Of Departure From Custom

No Important National Language, At Least In The Occidental World, Has Complete Regularity Of Grammatical Structure, Nor Is There A Single Logical Category Which Is Adequately And Consistently Handled In Terms Of Linguistic Symbolism.

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.