Language is a social art.

  • -- Willard Van Orman Quine 威拉德·冯·奥曼·蒯因

语言是一门社会艺术。

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The attitude of independence toward a constructed language which all national speakers must adopt is really a great advantage, because it tends to make man see himself as the master of language instead of its obedient servant.

独立对待一种所有说本国话的人都必须采用的建构语言的态度确实是一个很大的优势,因为它往往使人把自己看作是语言的主人,而不是语言的顺从的仆人。

True eloquence consists in saying all that is necessary, and nothing but what is necessary.

真正的雄辩在于说一切必要的话,而不在于说什么,而在于说什么是必要的。