This means someone cannot infer the spoken language from its written form and vice versa.
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Prev: I inferred from what she said that you have not been well.
Next: The number of extant manuscripts, however few, really does not allow scholars to infer how many ancient Latin manuscripts of a work survived to the ninth, the twelfth, or even the fifteenth century.