African Linguistic Classification

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“If your buttocks burn, you know you have done wrong.”
—White South African proverb.

“It is merely a linguistic peculiarity, not a logical fact, that we say “that is red” instead of “that reddens,” either in the sense of growing, becoming, red, or in the sense of making something else red.”
—John Dewey (1859–1952)