Among the selection criteria for the new polyurethane were that the material exhibited a combination of good wear characteristics and mechanical properties, was easy to handle, and provided for fast, easy alteration and repair of polyurethane as well as metal patterns.
A linguistic universal is a pattern that occurs systematically across natural languages, potentially true for all of them. For example, All languages have nouns and verbs, or If a language is spoken, it has consonants and vowels.
The strongest form of the theory is linguistic determinism, which holds that language entirely determines the range of cognitive processes. The hypothesis of linguistic determinism is now generally agreed to be false.