| Johanna E. Rubba Ph.D. in Linguistics, 1993, University
of California, San Diego |
"Language, be it remembered, is not an abstract construction
of the learned, or of dictionary makers, but is something arising out
of the work, needs, ties, joys, affections, tastes, of long generations
of humanity, and has its bases broad and low, close to the ground. Its
final decisions are made by the masses, people nearest the concrete,
having most to do with actual land
and sea. It impermeates all, the past as well as the present, and is the
grandest triumph of the human intellect." Walt Whitman, The North American Review, 1885. |
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