Compare Helen Keller with Ildefonso who was deaf and mute, and didn’t learn language until age 27:
″ But the interesting thing that he said is that he can’t even think that way anymore. (Music.) He said he can’t think the way he used to think and when I pushed him to ask about what it was like to be languageless, the closest he ever came to any kind of an answer was exactly that. I don’t know, I don’t remember. I think differently now. ”—Radiolab episode on words
Compare Helen Keller with Ildefonso who was deaf and mute, and didn’t learn language until age 27:
″ But the interesting thing that he said is that he can’t even think that way anymore. (Music.) He said he can’t think the way he used to think and when I pushed him to ask about what it was like to be languageless, the closest he ever came to any kind of an answer was exactly that. I don’t know, I don’t remember. I think differently now. ”—Radiolab episode on words