Natural Languages

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    The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.
    Samuel Johnson (1709–1784)

    The very natural tendency to use terms derived from traditional grammar like verb, noun, adjective, passive voice, in describing languages outside of Indo-European is fraught with grave possibilities of misunderstanding.
    Benjamin Lee Whorf (1897–1934)