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Waiting for Linguistic Viagra

机译:等待语言伟哥

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Would yourather be blind or deaf? I love those classic conversation starters. Has Earth been visited by extraterrestrials? Does President Bush need to carry money? Why is it that, after making love, men fall asleep and women wake up? Let's focus on the blind/deaf question. Genius overcomes many difficulties. As evidence, we have the pantheon of blind and deaf artists, ranging from Beethoven to Goya to Milton to Ray Charles. According to neuropsy-chologist and author Oliver Sacks (in his book Seeing Voices), whether it's better to be blind or deaf depends on how old you are. For an adult, blindness and deafness are about equally problematic. But for a child, there is no question: it's better to be blind. Anyone who has had the opportunity to teach a deaf child knows thisl Hearing is the primary channel through which we receive language, and all of those incoming words downloaded into our brains carry a wealth of emotional and cognitive apparatus that structures and empowers our imagination. Language is the mind's opposable thumb.
机译:您的父亲会失明还是充耳不闻?我喜欢那些经典的对话开始者。地球有外星人来过吗?布什总统需要携带金钱吗?为什么做爱后男人睡着了,女人醒了?让我们关注盲人/聋人问题。天才克服了许多困难。作为证明,我们有盲人和聋哑艺术家的万神殿,从贝多芬到戈雅再到米尔顿再到雷·查尔斯。根据神经解剖学家和作家奥利弗·萨克斯(Oliver Sacks)(在他的《看见声音》一书中)所说,盲人或聋人是否更好取决于您的年龄。对于成年人来说,失明和耳聋也同样成问题。但是对于孩子来说,毫无疑问:盲目更好。任何有机会教给聋哑儿童的人都知道,听力是我们获取语言的主要渠道,下载到我们大脑中的所有这些传入单词都带有丰富的情感和认知工具,可以构造并增强我们的想象力。语言是心灵的对立拇指。

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    《Technology Review》 |2001年第5期|p.25-27|共3页
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