One does, after all, take on many of the givens of a society when one takes on its language.
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There are times when the power of language is not the power that is needed.
On the other hand, in a society whose communication component is becoming more prominent day by day, both as a reality and as an issue, it is clear that language assumes a new importance.
Language has no independent existence apart from the people who use it. It is not an end in itself; it is a means to an end of understanding who you are and what society is like.
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.
Language is an intrinsic part of who we are and what has, for good or evil, happened to us.
In a sense, every form of expression is imposed upon one by social factors, one's own language above all.
It might be inevitable that we have to confront the idea that our destiny is to be one world with one language.
A language is a more ancient and inevitable thing than any state.
When we change the way we communicate, we change society.
Language is wild - you can't fence it or tell it what to do - and it's the same with people. Even under the worst excesses of Stalinism or consumerism, the human spirit will still express itself.
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