> Carsten Becker wrote:
>
>> 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.
>
>
> Here's her story:
http://makeashorterlink.com/?F20312909
>
> And it's not completely beyond belief that a group of people, or maybe
> even just one, could come up with a method of communicating if given the
> time, even if they had no prior knowledge of language. It's happened at
> least once, after all: we all speak, and somebody had to invent it.
>