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Edward Sapir Quotes

A logical analysis of reflexive usages in French shows, however, that this simplicity is an illusion and that, so far from helping the foreigner, it is more calculated to bother him.
Edward Sapir

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Scientist Quotes
Category:
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Date of Birth:
January 26, 1884
Date of Death:
February 4, 1939
Nationality:
American
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