So, language is this communal set of rumors spiritualized by its very vagueness and shared quality.

因此，语言以其模棱两可的特性,营造出这种精神化的谣传的公社氛围。

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We are also not only inherently literary inherently linguistic, but also inherently visual.

我们不仅有固有的文学特性,有固有的语言特性，还有固有的视觉特性。

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So, every philosopher or psychologist or humanist or neuroscientist who has ever thought about people has had to make some claim about the nature of language and how it works.

因此,无论是哲学家,心理学家,人类学家,还是神经系统学家,只要他们曾经研究过人类,便会就语言的特性及其功能提出某些理论

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So we could ask, in this narrow sense, what properties do languages have and then go on to ask, in a broader sense, what other communicative systems also possess those properties.

我们可以发问,从狭义上说,语言拥有何种特性,然后我们可以接着发问,从广义上说,哪些其他的交流系统也同样拥有那些特性

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