"Cooperation and trust are essential ingredients of social life,
made public through language, spoken and written. From
the signals and gestures of our predecessors to the grafting
of sound and markings to modern grammar, what we
say and write represents what we think and what we think
and feel represents what we perceive and have perceived of
the world. Were truth a random occurrence, or of relatively
little significance, our language would be vastly different,
itself undependable. Such is not the case however: our words
and grammar reflect what we see, hear, feel, imagine, and do."
-- From "The Limits of Truth" (XLIBRIS)