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A linguistic system is a series of differences of sound combined with a series of differences of ideas... ✨ Course in General Linguistics by Ferdinand de Saussure, edited by Charles Bally and Albert Sechehaye, translated by Wade Baskin, New York : Philosophical Library, (p. 120), 1959.
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A linguistic system is a series of differences of sound combined with a series of differences of ideas... ✨ Course in General Linguistics by Ferdinand de Saussure, edited by Charles Bally and Albert Sechehaye, translated by Wade Baskin, New York : Philosophical Library, (p. 120), 1959.

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