Sooner or later, for any word lover, the human habit of wordless signaling leads to a simple question for which there is perhaps only a complex answer.The question is why has language, given its unique power to convey thought or feeling or almost anything else in the human realm, fallen so short as a practical social tool for man. The answer is that it has not. Instead, the human creature has fallen short as a user of language, employing it so duplicitously that even in ancient times the wise advised that people should be judged not by what they said but by what they did. That such advice holds good for today goes without saying.翻译

语言有其独特的力量，可以传达人类的思想、情感或其他几乎所有内容，但为什么在实用的社会工具中还是缺乏效用？答案是它没有缺乏效用，而是人类对使用语言的能力不足，甚至在古代，智者就建议不要以人们说了什么来判断他们，而要以他们做了什么来判断。而这一点在今天仍然适用，不言而喻。