Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation are used is free and infinitely varied. Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation.

  • -- Avram Noam Chomsky 乔姆斯基

语言是自由创造的过程;它的法则和原则是固定的,但是生成原则的使用方式是自由的,并且是无限变化的。甚至词语的解释和使用也需要一个自由创造的过程。

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In English, I'm a little bit limited. I speak English as a second language, and that's a little limitation that I have to work around and I have to use it to my favor. So, yes, that's why I end up wanting to do more things in Latin America.

在英语方面,我有点受限。我把英语作为第二语言,这是一个小小的限制,我必须努力克服,我必须用它来对我有利。所以,是的,这就是为什么我最终想在拉丁美洲做更多的事情。

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.

事实上,一种超越其自身范围的民族语言,很快就会失去其原有的丰富内容,其效果并不比一种建构的语言好。