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

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

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

change is not the exception but the rule. — Guy Deutscher

The loyalty rate isn't that high. I could have a big hit, then put out the next single, and they say, Oh yeah, who are you? Prove it again. — Lenny Kravitz

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

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

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

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

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

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

A decade is a long time to be doing anything, much less to be with the same guys, chasing after the same goals. — Mike Shinoda

That was a double negative, Jemail. By saying that you haven't seen nobody, you're actually saying that you have seen somebody. — Michael Monroe

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

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

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

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

It is only a gesture," he said, turning back to Shadow. "But gestures mean everything. The death of one dog symbolizes the death of all dogs. — Neil Gaiman

His principles were out of date, but there was a good deal to be said for his prejudices. — Oscar Wilde

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

A proud man will be set against all that is holy, for he is the God of his own world. — Angela Elwell Hunt

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

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

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