A Standard International Language Should Not Only

Were A Language Ever Completely "grammatical" It Would Be A Perfect Engine Of Conceptual Expression. Unfortunately, Or Luckily, No Language Is Tyrannically Consistent. All Grammars Leak.

Cultural Anthropology Is Not Valuable Because It Uncovers The Archaic In The Psychological Sense. It Is Valuable Because It Is Constantly Rediscovering The Normal.

Comparison Of Statements Made At Different Periods Frequently Enable Us To Give Maximal And Minimal Dates To The Appearance Of A Cultural Element Or To Assign The Time Limits To A Movement Of Population.

No Two Languages Are Ever Sufficiently Similar To Be Considered As Representing The Same Social Reality.

A Logical Analysis Of Reflexive Usages In French Shows, However, That This Simplicity Is An Illusion And That, So Far From Helping The Foreigner, It Is More Calculated To Bother Him.