Polish Language Course – General Profile

Kurs języka polskiego – profil ogólny

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⇑Polish Language Course – General Profile at SWEiZ

Language: Polish Studies in Polish

Subject area: humanities

University website: www.sweiz.pl

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Language

Language is a system that consists of the development, acquisition, maintenance and use of complex systems of communication, particularly the human ability to do so; and a language is any specific example of such a system.

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Language

He has strangled
His language in his tears.

William Shakespeare, Henry VIII (c. 1613), Act V, scene 1, line 158.

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Language

Language is the only instrument of science, and words are but the signs of ideas.

Samuel Johnson, Preface to his English Dictionary.

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Evolution teaches us the original purpose of language was to ritualize men's threats and curses, his spells to compel the gods; communication came later.

Gene Wolfe, "The Death of Doctor Island", Universe 3 (1973), ed. Terry Carr; reprinted in The Best of Gene Wolfe (2009).

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