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Re: OT: Helen Keller & Whorf-Sapir

From:Keith Gaughan <kmgaughan@...>
Date:Thursday, August 12, 2004, 17:12
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. K. -- Keith Gaughan -- talideon.com The man who removes a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.

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