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The Language Instinct (1994)
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Forcing modern speakers of English to not - whoops, not to split an infinitive because it isn't done in Latin makes about as much sense as forcing modern residents of England to wear laurels and togas.
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Language is obviously as different from other animals' communication systems as the elephant's trunk is different from other animals' nostrils.
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Some people worry that slang will somehow corrupt the language. We should be so lucky.
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We can shape events in each other's brains with exquisite precision.
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Just as it is true that a stream cannot rise above its source, so it is true that a national literature cannot rise above the moral level of the social conditions of the people from whom it derives its inspiration.
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September 18, 1954
(age 66)
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