Languages have pattern or syntax sets {langue}.
Languages have actual word expression {parole, speech}.
Language is for social situations and can persuade, question, declare, and order {pragmatics, linguistics}|. Social situations determine sentence forms. Narrations use phrase sequences. Relations use nested and inverted phrases. Metaphors and models relate relations.
The most-common words are shortest. Logarithm of word frequency versus word length is a straight line with slope one {Zipf's law} {Zipf law}.
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