"when a language dies, a way of understanding the world dies with it, a way of looking at the world.

No phonetic sign, except at a rudimentary, strictly speaking pre-linguistic level of vocal imitation, has any substantive relation or contiguity to that which it is conventionally and temporally held to designate.
No phonetic sign, except at a rudimentary, strictly speaking pre-linguistic level of vocal imitation...
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