Everyone, left to his own devices, forms an idea about what goes on in language which is very far from the truth.

Everyone, left to his own devices, forms an idea about what goes on in language which is very far from the truth.

每个人，任其自行其是，都会对语言中发生的事情形成一种与事实相去甚远的看法。

-- Ferdinand de Saussure 索绪尔