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Dialogue
1 Craty| aware of the truth, that ‘languages are not made, but grow.’ 2 Craty| of intelligence, and that languages belong to States and not 3 Craty| the influence of foreign languages, the desire of euphony, 4 Craty| of Greek words from other languages, or of the permutations 5 Craty| in our own and in other languages; for even in foreign words 6 Craty| heard with surprise that languages are the common work of whole 7 Craty| by a mechanical process. ‘Languages are not made but grow,’ 8 Craty| relation of Greek to foreign languages, which he is led to consider, 9 Craty| derivation from foreign languages; they must be resolved into 10 Craty| accidental, derived from other languages, and may have no relation 11 Craty| He is not aware that the languages of the world are organic 12 Craty| Realism. He is aware too that languages exist in various degrees 13 Craty| of their usages existing languages might become clearer and 14 Craty| we follow the history of languages, we observe that they are 15 Craty| fallacy of resolving the languages which we know into their 16 Craty| speech of man, and of all the languages in the world, as the expressions 17 Craty| the power and wonder of languages, and is very natural to 18 Craty| language of which all existent languages may be supposed to be the 19 Craty| abstract tree, but only languages in various stages of growth, 20 Craty| the distinction between languages which have had a free and 21 Craty| of their organisms, and languages which have been stunted 22 Craty| distinction between synthetical languages like Greek and Latin, which 23 Craty| inflexions, and analytical languages like English or French, 24 Craty| Innumerable as are the languages and dialects of mankind, 25 Craty| has been very great. More languages have been compared; the 26 Craty| lost in the distance. For languages have a natural but not a 27 Craty| because the remains of the languages with which we are acquainted 28 Craty| of speech. Although all languages have some common principles, 29 Craty| some members of a group of languages b becomes p, or d, t, or 30 Craty| t, or ch, k; or why two languages resemble one another in 31 Craty| the greater families of languages stand to each other. The 32 Craty| us. We no longer divide languages into synthetical and analytical, 33 Craty| Logic. Nor do we conceive languages any more than civilisations 34 Craty| are invariable, but no two languages are alike, no two words 35 Craty| likewise in vegetable, so in languages, the process of change is 36 Craty| wanting to describe ancient languages in the terms of a modern 37 Craty| language is almost confined to languages which are fully developed. 38 Craty| ancient and modern European languages. In the child learning to 39 Craty| manufacture. Artificial languages, such as that of Bishop 40 Craty| remembered that in all the languages which have a literature, 41 Craty| reason the motive powers of languages seem to have ceased when 42 Craty| grew, and in the form of languages came to be distributed over 43 Craty| to have a place in great languages and literatures.~We can 44 Craty| considered the differentiation of languages, i.e. the manner in which 45 Craty| the invention of writing, languages were only dialects. So they 46 Craty| usual to depreciate modern languages when compared with ancient. 47 Craty| seems to be that modern languages, if through the loss of 48 Craty| distributed. The best modern languages, for example English or 49 Craty| impossible. Nor will modern languages be easily broken up by amalgamation 50 Craty| advantage over the classical languages in point of accuracy. The 51 Craty| them in ancient and modern languages we are not able to judge.~ 52 Craty| are superior to ancient languages is freedom from tautology. 53 Craty| Clearly then the professor of languages should be able to give a