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Edward Sapir

American Scientist

Born: Jan 26, 1884

Died: Feb 4, 1939

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Impatience translates itself into a desire to have something immediate done about it all, and, as is generally the case with impatience, resolves itself in the easiest way that lies ready to hand. Edward Sapir

Way Immediate Easiest Easiest Way Lies About Case Impatience Something Generally Ready Hand Itself Done Desire

It would, of course, be hopeless to attempt to crowd into an international language all those local overtones of meaning which are so dear to the heart of the nationalist. Edward Sapir

Heart Language Hopeless Local Those Would Crowd Attempt Course Dear Nationalist Which Meaning International International Language

As a matter of fact, a national language which spreads beyond its own confines very quickly loses much of its original richness of content and is in no better case than a constructed language. Edward Sapir

The spirit of logical analysis should in practice blend with the practical pressure for the adoption of some form of international language, but it should not allow itself to be stampeded by it. Edward Sapir

Logical Language Pressure Practice Analysis Some Spirit Adoption Allow Blend Practical Itself Form Should International International Language

A common allegiance to form of expression that is identified with no single national unit is likely to prove one of the most potent symbols of the freedom of the human spirit that the world has yet known. Edward Sapir

Freedom World Single National Spirit Allegiance Potent Most Likely Identified Known Prove Human Common Form Unit Human Spirit Expression Symbols

A second type of direct evidence is formed by statements, whether as formal legends or personal information, regarding the age or relative sequence of events in tribal history made by the natives themselves. Edward Sapir

History Age Events Tribal Made Type Relative Statements Evidence Direct Personal Legends Personal Information Formal Natives Regarding Information Whether Formed Themselves Sequence Second

Both French and Latin are involved with nationalistic and religious implications which could not be entirely shaken off, and so, while they seemed for a long time to have solved the international language problem up to a certain point, they did not really do so in spirit. Edward Sapir

Time Problem Language Long Long Time Latin Religious Solved Spirit Seemed Entirely Shaken Both Point Could Implications Involved French Off Up Did Nationalistic Which While Really Certain Certain Point International International Language

Comparison of statements made at different periods frequently enable us to give maximal and minimal dates to the appearance of a cultural element or to assign the time limits to a movement of population. Edward Sapir

Time Made Statements Minimal Give Dates Periods Enable Frequently Limits Cultural Movement Different Us Appearance Element Population Comparison Assign

English, once accepted as an international language, is no more secure than French has proved to be as the one and only accepted language of diplomacy or as Latin has proved to be as the international language of science. Edward Sapir

Science Language Diplomacy Once Latin Secure More Only French Accepted Proved Than English International International Language

The psychology of a language which, in one way or another, is imposed upon one because of factors beyond one's control, is very different from the psychology of a language which one accepts of one's free will. Edward Sapir

Language Will Free Free Will Control Way One-Way Factors Beyond Another Because Accepts Imposed Very Different Psychology Which

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