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Date: Thu, 27 Jun 2013 14:10:39 +0200
Subject: Re: looking for a linguistical/semiotic quote
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2013/6/27 rusi <rustompmody@gmail.com>:
> I am looking for a quote
> (from Whorf/Sapir/Wittgenstein/Humboldt dunno... that 'school')
>
> It goes something like this:
>
> What characterizes a language is not what we can say in it but what we mu=
st -- like it or not -- say.
> [...]

Hi,
I belive, the author is Roman Jakobson, see the respective post about
this very question:
http://linguistlist.org/issues/9/9-32.html

There seem to be several variations,
Another remarkable linguist Eugenio Coseriu mentions this in his paper
(Sprache: Strukturen und Funktionen ... T=FCbingen 1979, p. 119).
The German text is besides mentioning Jakobson almost fully equivalent
to you original quote:
"R. Jakobson bemerkt mit Recht, da=DF sich die Sprachen nicht durch das,
was sie sagen k=F6nnen, unterscheiden, sondern durch das, was sie sagen
m=FCssen."

http://books.google.cz/books?id=3DJkGCkC8RYcEC
p. 119

hth,
  vbr