From Alan Wells
May I suggest that the quote is a subconscious rearrangement of one or more of the following:
“If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart” – politician Nelson Mandela; “Learning another language is not only learning different words for the same things, but learning another way to think about things” – journalist Flora Lewis; “Language shapes the way we think and determines what we can think about” – linguist Benjamin Lee Whorf; “If we spoke a different language, we would perceive a somewhat different world” – philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein. Larman's version is certainly snappy.
Chichester, Dorset, UK
