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Languages differ essentially in what they must convey and not in what they may convey.

Roman Jakobson
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Roman Jakobson, Krystyna Pomorska, Stephen Rudy (1987). “Language in Literature”, p.410, Harvard University Press
Languages differ essentially in what they must convey and not in what they may convey.