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“I live for you,” I say sadly.
She kisses my cheek. “Then you must live for more.“

there’s a suspicion that math and arithmetic can be a precursor or model for understanding language.p

is theorized that a language takes at least two generations to develop because grammar can only be developed by the language hitting the second generation.

some hearing people use sign when they’re thinking through complex problems. speaking is for social function and sign for intellectual function. 1 psychologist mentioned when he studied a hearing child w deaf parents the child would say things to the psychologist in English, but his true feelings would come out upon signing to his parents with “unconscious material “making its appearance in motor communication

speceium- a language conceptualized by a philosopher. It is the idea of a language is so perfect at capturing the essence of everything that it does not need grammar, metaphor. It would be very intuitive and universal.

-facial vision: blind people can anticipate obstacles without seeing/touching them.
-deaf people were considered stupid for years and it was illegal for them to inherit property, marry, education. Changed in 18th century.
-“We are, in sum, incomplete or unfinished animals who complete or finish ourselves through culture. “ Geertz, 1973
-There were “oral schools” to teach deaf kids to speak like other kids

-these sounds that deaf people hear after losing their hearing persist decades later. it is not an imagination so much as an immediate translation.
-deaf sign poet said when he is writing a poem, he feels his body making little signs, as though he were speaking to himself in his own “voice”.
-perception of vibration becomes an accessory sense; some deaf people can interpret chords or voices this way

-the idea of “eye music”: deaf can “hear” based on visual stimuli; hear soughing of the wind whenever he saw branches stirred by the wind. if patient was hearing at one point, they still hear voices of family when they SEE them speak.
-we correlate all our senses in one singular experience; this can be seen with eye music or in one patient who became anosmic and could smell flowers whenever he saw them.

-Rochester has large deaf community
-there exists French sign, Chinese sign, Yiddish sign, Old Kentish sign
-some people in the deaf community make the difference between deafness/Deafness, with the uppercase meaning a linguistic and cultural entity
-Sacks worked at Einstein, NYU
-Sacks recommends Deaf in America: Voices from a Culture and Islay for books about deafness by deaf.
-Profoundly deaf = stone deaf