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Language is only in part an individual instrument. It is in the main a community instrument used for community purposes. As such it tends to launch out on a career of its own, to which individuals contribute very much as the coral insect contributes to the growth of a coral reef or island.
—L. S. Amery, British statesman, Thought and Language, 1949

Posted on October 3, 1999 at 6:16 PM

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