“Written forms obscure our view of language. They are not so much a garment as a disguise.”
Quote by Ferdinand de Saussure
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Ferdinand de Saussure
Ferdinand de Saussure, born on November 26, 1857 in Geneva, Switzerland, and died on February 22, 1913. He was a Swiss linguist and the founder of structuralism in linguistics, regarded as one of the most important linguists of the 20th century. more
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