[B-Greek] SIKELOS OMFAKIZETAI What kind of middle?
jgibson000 at comcast.net
jgibson000 at comcast.net
Tue Jan 4 21:29:37 EST 2011
On 1/4/2011 8:23 PM, George F Somsel wrote:
> Actually, the person who said that was Max Müller, and it wasn't about language
> but about religion. He was sort of the founder of the sociology of religions
> idea.
>
I guess I was thinking of this:
> /Wer fremde Sprachen nicht kennt, weiß nichts von seiner eigenen/
> Those who know no foreign language knows nothing of their mother
> tongue.
> (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)
And Mark was apparently thinking of this:
> /Die Grenzen meiner Sprache bedeuten die Grenzen meiner Welt./
> The limits of my language are the limits of my universe.
> (Ludwig Wittgenstein)
Jeffrey
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