① When you look at a flowering plant, look for details of the flower, fruit, stem, and leaves, use a magnifying glass. The more you look, the more you will see, and the more interesting flowers become.

② The more widely the habit of reading spreads, and the more the people listen to the same language used over the radio and in the movies, the less variation there will be in the speech of those speaking the same language. With these strong influences working to make language uniform, it will be but natural for language to become more stable in time as well as in space. In other words, changes in a language will come more slowly.