I like the quote. What about, and I paraphrase:
'We know our history more vividly through its music than through historians'

Sparteye, I read your posts with great euthusiasm as you touched on such topics in another thread. You wrote:
"Putting a name to something has a magic all its own"
Isn't this often just fooling ourselves into thinking we've have the concept rock solid in our minds. Take the concept of 'time', what a joke, yet it's is used as if a firm grasp existed. It often seems putting ideas into words spoils the purity of the concept.

Anna's mention of Sapir who is often linked with Whorf in his theories concerning language acquisition really interests me. I read an essay concerning the apparent debunking of the posits by Noam Chomsky (who is widely supported), a classic fallacy:
http://www.sunflower.com/~dewatson/dma-dwh.htm
and for nikeblack this:
http://www.mauthner-gesellschaft.de/mauthner/whorf.html
Anna quoted: 'By their first birthday, babies are getting locked into the sounds of the language they hear spoken' ...This made me ask: 'What if they've heard multiple languages by that time?'


All our words are but scraps that fall from the feast of the mind - Kahlil Gibran