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of accelerating the learning process, and of making possible the
transmission of knowledge and insight across time and space,
easily overrides the disadvantages of linguistic codifications of
experience. In modern mathematics and science there are
increasingly more and more nonverbal ways of codifying
experience.
Money, like language a store of work and experience, acts
also as translator and transmitter. Especially since the written
word has advanced the separation of social functions, money is
able to move away from its role as store of work. This role is
obvious when a staple or commodity like cattle or fur is used as
money. As money separates itself from the commodity form
and becomes a specialist agent of exchange (or translator of
values), it moves with greater speed and in ever greater
volume.