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  • This immediate dependence of language upon nature, this conversion of an outward phenomenon into a type of somewhat in human life,never loses its power to affect us. It is this which gives that piquancy to the conversation of a strong-natured farmer or backwoodsman, which all men relish.

    Ralph Waldo Emerson (2009). “The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.15, Modern Library