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Any language is...

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Any language is necessarily a finite system applied with different degrees of creativity to an infinite variety of situations, and most of the words and phrases we use are prefabricated in the sense that we don't coin new ones every time we speak.

Source: Defending Californian slang, or psychobabble; The State of the Language, Where It's At, 1980.
-- David Lodge, (Jan 28 1935-____), British author, literary critic; He was a professor of English Literature at the?U. of Birmingham?and known for novels satirising academic life.


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