Language Is By Its Very Nature A Communal Thing; That Is, It Expresses Never The Exact Thing But A Compromise -- That Which Is Common To You, Me And Everybody.

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Language is by its very nature a communal thing;
that is, it expresses never the exact thing but a compromise
-- that which is common to you, me and everybody.
-- Ernest Hulme, Speculations

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