Tagged by Dragon

I've been tagged by Undercover Dragon to post three sentences starting with sentence 5 of page 123 of the nearest book.

Here are my three sentences:

"It is laziness, our language is very lazy; we do not search for the names of things, we name them haphazardly and it is up to the listener to understand. The other has to know what you want to say in order to comprehend you; otherwise we are misunderstood.

This is the word I was searching for."

From "Bab al-Shams" by Elias Khoury. The speaker is talking about the Arabic language (the translation from the original Arabic is mine, but there's an English translation available from Humphrey Davies).