Echolalias: On The
Forgetting of Language is about how people can forget words, phrases, and
even entire languages. Roazen relates this to how infants forget their infant
babble as they learn the language of those around them. He talks about the
child not only looses the babble, but also the ease and flexibility to learn
any language. He wonders about if adults had any of the infant speech left in
their final tongues and that if it did, then that would be the echolalia of the
forgotten infant speech. He uses a logic extending system called “Logic in
Reality” to explain how things like this language problem could be worked out reasonably
and logically.
This work invokes an audience by questioning the edges of
human consciousness and how people can forget things that they once knew. The
book does not really try to answer every question that it brings up, but it
should rather be considered an exploratory work, where he is trying to find a
better understanding of the human mind and explain to the audience what he has
come up with. While the ideas itself are speculative, the tone is not as it is
based on reason and building on previous ideas. The tone stays rational to
provide a base work for the book itself.
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