Another inter­est­ing quote I found while read­ing the first chap­ter of Deleuz and Guattari’s “A Thousand Plateaus”:

Even when lin­guis­tics claims to con­fine itself to what is explicit an to make no pre­sup­po­si­tions about lan­guage, it is still in the sphere of a dis­course imply­ing par­tic­u­lar modes of assem­blage and types of social power. (page 7)

I sim­ply found this inter­est­ing because I found it to be quite rel­e­vant to my feel­ings toward the teach­ing and learn­ing of lan­guages like Ancient Greek or Latin. I’ve always been trou­bled by the way that we do not fully com­pre­hend the struc­ture or con­struc­tion of these lan­guages, but yet we still make assump­tions about lan­guage usage and mean­ing. I believe that we do this by break­ing the lan­guages down into a sin­gle realm of mean­ing that may or may not have been applic­a­ble or rel­e­vant for the gen­eral pop­u­lous of the time.