when a language dies a way of understanding the world dies with it a way of looking at the world.
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No phonetic sign except at a rudimentary strictly speaking prelinguistic level of vocal imitation has any substantive relation or contiguity to that which it is conventionally and temporally held to designate.
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The age of the book is almost gone.
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