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Guy Deutscher quotes: Fluent speech, there are no real spaces between words, so when two words frequently appear together they can easily fuse into one.

Fluent speech, there are no real spaces between words, so when two words frequently appear together they can easily fuse into one.

Guy Deutscher quotes: The names we use for things bear no inherent relation to the things themselves.

The names we use for things bear no inherent relation to the things themselves.

Guy Deutscher quotes: Japanese used to have a color word, ao, that spanned both green and blue.

Japanese used to have a color word, ao, that spanned both green and blue.

Guy Deutscher quotes: change is not the exception but the rule.

change is not the exception but the rule.

Guy Deutscher quotes: As strange as it may sound, our experience of a Chagall painting actually depends to some extent on whether our language has a word for blue.

As strange as it may sound, our experience of a Chagall painting actually depends to some extent on whether our language has a word for blue.

Guy Deutscher quotes: Needless to say, genders cheer up the everyday life of ordinary mortals too.

Needless to say, genders cheer up the everyday life of ordinary mortals too.

Guy Deutscher quotes: Word that is not actively used by one generation will not be heard by the next generation and will then be lost forever.

Word that is not actively used by one generation will not be heard by the next generation and will then be lost forever.

Guy Deutscher quotes: Without these much maligned forces of destruction, language would never have developed in the first place.

Without these much maligned forces of destruction, language would never have developed in the first place.

Guy Deutscher quotes: envisaged Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday as men but Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday as women. Why should this be so?

envisaged Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday as men but Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday as women. Why should this be so?

Guy Deutscher quotes: To think is to forget a difference, to generalize, to abstract.

To think is to forget a difference, to generalize, to abstract.

Guy Deutscher quotes: There is an inverse correlation between the complexity of society and of word structure!

There is an inverse correlation between the complexity of society and of word structure!

Guy Deutscher quotes: There are many languages that don't make a distinction between green and blue and treat these as shades of one color.

There are many languages that don't make a distinction between green and blue and treat these as shades of one color.

Guy Deutscher quotes: Since red is a signal for many vital things, most importantly danger (blood) and sex

Since red is a signal for many vital things, most importantly danger (blood) and sex

Guy Deutscher quotes: abstract' comes from a Latin verb which simply meant 'draw away' (abstrahere).

abstract' comes from a Latin verb which simply meant 'draw away' (abstrahere).

Guy Deutscher quotes: people find names for things they feel the need to talk about.

people find names for things they feel the need to talk about.

Guy Deutscher quotes: Keeping order is a crutch for those who are too lazy to search for things ... )

Keeping order is a crutch for those who are too lazy to search for things ... )

Guy Deutscher quotes: the brain of a child learning a language can cope with a mind-boggling amount of linguistic complexity.

the brain of a child learning a language can cope with a mind-boggling amount of linguistic complexity.

Guy Deutscher quotes: There is no way to devise an objective and non-arbitrary measure for comparing the overall complexity of any two given languages.

There is no way to devise an objective and non-arbitrary measure for comparing the overall complexity of any two given languages.