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Re: OT: Helen Keller & Whorf-Sapir

From:Carsten Becker <naranoieati@...>
Date:Thursday, August 12, 2004, 15:52
Hello!

On Thursday 12 August 2004 01:46, Caleb wrote:

 > If this is the case, then I wonder what Helen
 > Keller's perception of the world would have been before
 > learning to communicate.
 >
 > 1) One possibility, I suppose, could be that she came up
 > with her own sort of internal 'language', completely
 > different and independent of English and unrelated to
 > spoken words.

Who is Helen Keller and why hasn't she been able to
communicate? To come up with an own language, you must have
lived a while, so AIUI you cannot have meant the time where
she has been a baby.

Carsten

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