Language
Since the end of the 18th and the beginning of the 19th century, Prussian Lithuanians have typically been bilingual.
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“Had Dr. Johnson written his own life, in conformity with the opinion which he has given, that every man’s life may be best written by himself; had he employed in the preservation of his own history, that clearness of narration and elegance of language in which he has embalmed so many eminent persons, the world would probably have had the most perfect example of biography that was ever exhibited.”
—James Boswell (1740–95)
“Consensus is usually made possible by vague language and shallow commitments.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)
“Man acts as though he were the shaper and master of language, while in fact language remains the master of man.”
—Martin Heidegger (1889–1976)