Language and Culture
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概要
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Understanding a man's language and his culture is the best means of understanding the man. Men progress greatly because they understand the culture of their neighbors and speak their language, which enables them to borrow things from that particular culture and employ them in their culture to improve their lot. This would not be possible if they neither understood the language or the culture because they wouldn't know if they were using what they had borrowed in the manner that it was originally intended to be used. The changes that take place in a language do not occur so much to improve the language as they do to satisfy a need that the change meets. If it were not for needs arising languages would probably constantly become simpler with many of the more complex words going unused.
- 1999-12-27