“Written forms obscure our view of language. They are not so much a garment as a disguise.” FormLanguageViewsWrittenDisguiseObscureTranslationsGarments Author:Ferdinand de Saussure
“Everyone, left to his own devices, forms an idea about what goes on in language which is very far from the truth.” IdeasFormLeftLanguageGoes OnDevices Author:Ferdinand de Saussure
“It is useful to the historian, among others, to be able to see the commonest forms of different phenomena, whether phonetic, morphological or other, and how language lives, carries on and changes over time.” DifferentAbleFormLanguageCarrieHistorianChanges Over Time Author:Ferdinand de Saussure
