Subject: Re: ...Events Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1998 01:51:15 -0500 (EST) > > Perhaps it begins when the sperm eavesdrops at conception. Sorry, couldn't > resist. Don, can I call you Don?, this line is what i would call premature ejaculation, what happened to the "hermeneutic suspension" you mentioned? The event was put in the future (re: ... event), let us have more of that "perhaps," more chance for all of us to talk. *Perhaps* that has to do with not trying to anticipate too much where one is going to go with the lines that appear awry. Ari > > > >>>Language, presumably, is not a pre-natal experience. > > Just a note on this assumption: The baby in the womb hears the > mother's heart, breathing and other body sounds as well as her voice, and > even > the voices of others nearby. This is one way the newborn infant > "recognizes" > its mother, a mutual recognition upon which everything depends. And the > rhythms of heartbeat, breath, motion, rest, and so on may give the context > for "learning" everything. I think it is very difficult to say, then, where > language begins.>>>> > > Ingrid M. > > > > --
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