Thursday August 26, 2021; 11:58 AM EDT
- In finding a language they can share, Vicki Hearne proposes, people at the same time create a social space they can share. The better the language, the more reality it accounts for, the further those people can now travel together. Her words: #
- If we consider, as I have been doing, the size and kind of the social space created by the language shared by two or more creatures, and if we describe the integrity of a language as the physical, intellectual and spiritual distance talking enables speakers of that language to travel together, then..." --from "How to Say 'Fetch'" in her book Adam's Task.#