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Let’s further consider the plausibility that the relationship between language <> thought <> culture is not linear or uni-directional, but instead a virtuous cycle.
Steph Smith • Gaining Perspective Through Untranslatable Words
language. Linguistic barriers are not surmounted so easily.
Dana Mackenzie • The Book of Why: The New Science of Cause and Effect
Languages change and evolve organically. But it is perhaps paradoxically necessarily that languages must remain mostly unchanging — mostly common between their speakers — such that change can be recognized and contextualized, rather than simply disorienting.