If you want to know what's important to a culture, learn their language.

  • -- Joanne Harris 乔安·哈瑞斯

如果你想知道什么对一种文化来说是重要的,那就学习他们的语言。

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Curiously enough, it seems to be only in describing a mode of language which does not mean what it says that one can actually say what one means.

奇怪的是,它似乎只是在描述一种语言模式,并不意味着它所说的,一个人实际上可以说一个人的意思。

We now have a whole culture based on the assumption that people know nothing and so anything can be said to them.

我们现在的整个文化都是基于这样一种假设:人们什么都不知道,所以什么都可以对他们说。

History does not merely touch on language, but takes place in it.

历史不仅触及语言,而且发生在语言之中。

I'm continuing to do research into biker culture.

我还在继续研究摩托车文化。