You couldn't have human society without language.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Language is an intrinsic part of who we are and what has, for good or evil, happened to us.
There are times when the power of language is not the power that is needed.
It is quite an illusion to imagine that one adjusts to reality essentially without the use of language and that language is merely an incidental means of solving specific problems of communication or reflection.
If language did not affect behavior, it could have no meaning.
Language is the most extraordinary invention in the history of humanity, the one which came before everything and which makes it possible to share everything.
Human beings do not live in the objective world alone, nor alone in the world of social activity as ordinarily understood, but are very much at the mercy of the particular language which has become the medium of expression for their society.
Humans are a social species more than any other, and in order to build a community, which for some reason humans have to do in order to live, we have to solve the communication problem. Language is the tool that was invented to solve that problem.
I have never designed a language for its own sake.
No one who set out to design a form of communication would ever end up with anything like English, Mandarin, or any of the more than six thousand languages spoken today.
Speech is human nature itself, with none of the artificiality of written language.