Quotes Edward Sapir

A common allegiance to form of expression that is identified...

A common creation demands a common sacrifice, and perhaps no...

A firm, for instance, that does business in many countries o...

A logical analysis of reflexive usages in French shows, howe...

A second type of direct evidence is formed by statements, wh...

A standard international language should not only be simple,...

As a matter of fact, a national language which spreads beyon...

As to the theoretical desirability of an international auxil...

Both French and Latin are involved with nationalistic and re...

Comparison of statements made at different periods frequentl...

Cultural anthropology is more and more rapidly getting to re...

During the more than four hundred years that have elapsed si...

English, once accepted as an international language, is no m...

French and German illustrate the misleading character of app...

Human beings do not live in the objective world alone, nor a...

I am convinced that the stratigraphic method will in the fut...

Impatience translates itself into a desire to have something...

In a sense, every form of expression is imposed upon one by ...

In the educational world there is a great deal of discontent...

It is no secret that the fruits of language study are in no ...

It is quite an illusion to imagine that one adjusts to reali...

It is true that English is not as complex in its formal stru...

It is well known that the tense systems of French, English a...

It would, of course, be hopeless to attempt to crowd into an...

More and more, unsolicited gifts from without are likely to ...