Procedural languages characteristics

The buyers from China are either large chemical companies or traders representing many smaller chemical companies. They have similar characteristics to domestic business buyers, but they speak a different language and have different customs and procedures. The sellers with foreign language abilities and past experiences as students, travelers, or residents definitely have an advantage in understanding the buyers. 

A good many institutions in liberal democracies already take such a form and may serve as exemplars for fashioning new ones. One could say that democracy itself is based on the assumption that the metis of its citizenry should, in mediated form, continually modify the laws and policies of the land. Common law, as an institution, owes its longevity to the fact that it is not a final codification of legal rules, but rather a set of procedures for continually adapting some broad principles to novel circumstances. Finally, that most characteristic of human institutions, language, is the best model a structure of meaning and continuity that is never still and ever open to the improvisations of all its speakers. 

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