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The forms taken by language reflect character and evolutionary status. If refined elegant and grammatically correct then the speaker is a superior person. But if replete with slang, vulgarity, crudeness, his language is spoilt and he shames what he could be.

-- Notebooks Category 7: The Intellect > Chapter 5 : Semantics > # 61