"Languages differ essentially in what they must convey and not in what they may convey."
— Roman Jakobson

January 1, 1970

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"On Linguistic Aspects of Translation", p. 236, in On Translation (1959), ed. Reuben A. Brower, Harvard University Press, pp. 232–239.