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 | | Language: An Introduction to the Study of Speech, ISBN 0766195767, was written by the renowned linguist Edward Sapir, who writes in the preface, "This little book aims to give a certain perspective on the subject of language rather than to assemble facts about it... |
 | | Its main purpose is to show what I conceive language to be, what is its variability in place and time, and what are its relations to other fundamental human interests—the problem of thought, the nature of the historical process, race, culture, art. |
 | | Lapine, the language he sketches for his rabbits, is arguably the best naming language ever created, and is a minimalist virtuoso performance, a haiku of a language compared to the sonnet of Sindarin. |
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