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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