Shortly after, the authors of the Port Royal Grammar were struck by the “marvellous invention”of a means to construct from a few dozen sounds an infinity of expressions that enable us to reveal to others what we think and imagine and feel – from a contemporary standpoint, not an “invention” but no less “marvellous” as a product of biological evolution, about which virtually nothing is known, in this case.
求通顺,这句话出自索绪尔的《语言与心智新视野》