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Now multitudes of root words are identical in the American languages over vast areas some of them with precisely the same senses, and others with various shades of analogical meaning.

— John W. Dawson

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

Words take on many different meanings.

— Erin McKean

A feature of English that makes it different compared with all other languages is its global spread.

— David Crystal

We focus upon pairs of words very often which are the same in some areas and different in other areas.

— William Labov

I have my own vocabulary. I love linguistics. That surprises people.

— Matthew McConaughey

Language is a living thing. We can feel it changing. Parts of it become old: they drop off and are forgotten. New pieces bud out, spread into leaves, and become big branches, proliferating.

— Gilbert Highet

Words have meaning. And their meaning doesn't change.

— Antonin Scalia

Words have a genealogy and it's easier to trace the evolution of a single word than the evolution of a language.

— Daniel Dennett

Words derive their power from the original word.

— Meister Eckhart

People who grow up with two or more languages understand that each can express certain aspects of reality better than the other.

— Siri Hustvedt

Spoken language's elaborate rhythms and inflections convey more meaning per word than the printed word.

— Timothy Noah

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