Sometimes a single innocent sentence is enough to show that language is not language: "Sie sprechen die gleiche Sprache, englisch der eine, deutsch der andere." 'They speak the same language, English the one, German the other."
The German sentence comes from the liner notes to Peter Hammill's Offensichtlich Goldfisch, and "they" are Peter Hammill and Heinz Rudolf Kunze, and their same language should then I guess be music, which apparently you can speak in any language or something like that.

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