Indefinite Language

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“There is a line between a definite maybe and an indefinite yes.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)

“Any language is necessarily a finite system applied with different degrees of creativity to an infinite variety of situations, and most of the words and phrases we use are “prefabricated” in the sense that we don’t coin new ones every time we speak.”
—David Lodge (b. 1935)