Randolph
I take your point. Maybe we should turn it around - 'speech is language' as
it were. Yes, there are other forms of it too.
But.
dave
----- Original Message -----
From: T. R. Healy and L. MacMahon <[log in to unmask]>
To: brit poets <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Thursday, October 05, 2000 2:39 PM
Subject: Re: the price of poetry
> David,
> This identification reminds me uncomfortably of deaf schools' attempts to
> abolish sign language, teaching their charges speech, "real language"
> instead. Even if the results of such a project had not been quite so
dismal,
> one would have to have reservations.
>
> A friend of mine had the experience of having his hands tied behind his
back
> at school so that he couldn't sign. He was also repeatedly told that
signing
> was "only for handicapped people" and that it was a "sin".
>
> When we found out that our second daughter, Florence, in arms at the time,
> was deaf, we, in our innocence, all learned sign language at home. When
she
> started school we were told that it was forbidden and that we shouldn't as
> much as point at things. This we ignored. Our subsequent daughters all
> signed from about the age of three months.
>
> I love speech, but language is more.
>
> best
>
> Randolph Healy
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "david.bircumshaw" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: "brit poets" <[log in to unmask]>; "T. R. Healy and L.
> MacMahon" <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Friday, October 06, 2000 6:36 AM
> Subject: Re: the price of poetry
>
>
> > I'm puzzling over that one - not 'identifying language and speech?'
Are't
> > they the same? Or have I lost the track here, or summat?
> >
> > fascinated too, if bemused
> >
> >
> > dave
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: T. R. Healy and L. MacMahon <[log in to unmask]>
> > To: BritnIrishpoets <[log in to unmask]>
> > Sent: Thursday, October 05, 2000 2:02 PM
> > Subject: Re: the price of poetry
> >
> >
> > > I'm fascinated by this discussion. May I make a small plea and ask
that
> we
> > > don't routinely identify language and speech. I'm not being pedantic
and
> > > intend no slight on what I see as a valuable - and high quality! -
> thread.
> > >
> > > best
> > >
> > > Randolph Healy
> > >
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
>
>
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