Language ( page 228 ).
Questions.
1. What is the derivation of language? What was its original signification? How wide is its present meaning? 2. As regards the use of words, what does language denote in the general and in the restricted sense? 3. What does speech always involve? 4. Can we speak of the speech of animals? of their language? 5. What is a dialect? a barbarism? an idiom? 6. What is a patois? How does it differ from a dialect? 7. What is a vernacular?
Examples.
We must be free or die, who speak the ——
That Shakespeare spake: the faith and morals hold
Which Milton held.
—— is great; but silence is greater.
An infant crying in the night,
An infant crying for the light,
And with no —— but a cry.
Thought leapt out to wed with Thought,
Ere Thought could wed itself with ——.
A Babylonish ——
Which learned pedants much affect.
O! good, my lord, no Latin;
I'm not such a truant since my coming
As not to know the —— I have lived in.