The fact of the matter is that the 'real world' is to a large extent unconsciously built up on the language habits of the group.

National languages are all huge systems of vested interests which sullenly resist critical inquiry.

No important national language, at least in the Occidental world, has complete regularity of grammatical structure, nor is there a single logical category which is adequately and consistently handled in terms of linguistic symbolism.

No two languages are ever sufficiently similar to be considered as representing the same social reality.

It would, of course, be hopeless to attempt to crowd into an international language all those local overtones of meaning which are so dear to the heart of the nationalist.

It is quite an illusion to imagine that one adjusts to reality essentially without the use of language and that language is merely an incidental means of solving specific problems of communication or reflection.