One of them is that if you want to imbibe a culture, if you want to drink it in, if you want to become part of it, then whether or not the language channels the culture -- and that seems doubtful -- if you want to imbibe the culture, you have to control to some degree the language that the culture happens to be conducted in.
Viens no tiem – ja gribat uzņemt sevī kultūru, ja gribat to izbaudīt, ja gribat kļūt par tās daļu, tad vienalga, vai valoda pārvada kultūru vai ne, – un tas šķiet apšaubāmi, – ja gribat uzņemt sevī kultūru, jums zināmā mērā jāpārvalda valoda, kurā šo kultūru nodod.