Time changes all things, there is no reason why language should escape this universal law
~ Ferdinand De Saussure
Without language, thought is a vague, uncharted nebula.
Speech has both an individual and a social side, and we cannot conceive of one without the other.
Within speech, words are subject to a kind of relation that is independent of the first and based on their linkage: these are syntagmatic relations, of which I have spoken.
