All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer.

All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer.

所有的语言，无论是书面的还是口头的，都是一种死亡的语言，直到它找到一个愿意并有准备的听众。

-- Robert Louis Stevenson 罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森