From:	Dvixen <dvixen@********.COM>
Subject:	Re: Optional Metatypes, part 3: Sasquatch
Date:	Mon, 14 Jul 1997 01:07:50 -0700

People wrote:

> >My impression is that they are unable to assimilate spoken language;
> the
> >idea just doesn't work for them.
>
> Well, medically that same condition can arise in humans... that is a
> person can hear and understand spoken speach perfectly fine, but are
> almost completely unable to speak coherently. themselves. It had to
> do
> with the connections between the parts of the brain for speech and
> comprehension/cognitive activity (or something... the "Mind, Brain,
> and
> Behavior" class that I took was two quarters ago.)

Aphasia. The neurolinguistical term used to refer to any acquired (as
opposed to developmental) language disorder that follows a focal
(localised) brain lesion caused by a stroke, tumour, gunshot wound, or
an infection. (The main ones are: Broca's, Wernicke's, and a combination
of the two, Global Aphasia.) (And yep, I snuck it from one of my old
texts. The dust on it was something to be feared.)

Going on with that in mind, an Aphasia born to Sasquatch? Possible. This
would mean that there was some malformation in the Sasquatch's brain
that affected their ability to produce language. (And this means (in the
case of Sasquatch born Sasquatch) that the problem is no longer a case
of Aphasia.)

For all we know, Sasquatch speak the language from the Tower of Babel,
and therefore can understand us, but since we lost the ability to speak
it... (Snowcrash, anyone?) (Hey, wouldn't the old geezer's (Dragons,
IE...) be able to understand Sasquatches then? )

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