In the first place, language as you know it is a slow affair: letter by letter strung out to make a word, and words to make a sentence, the result of a linear thought pattern.

首先，正如你所知，语言是一件缓慢的事情：一个字母一个字母串起来组成一个词，一个个词组成一个句子，这是线性思维模式的结果。