Anyone who comes
into a foreign
land || country
has frequently || will often
have to learn the language
of the
inhabitants there
through || by ostensive
definitions || explanations which
they || people give him; and he
has frequently || will often
have to
guess the interpretation of these
explanations,
& will guess it
often || sometimes correctly,
often || sometimes
wrong
ly. And now we can
say, I think:
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¤ Augustine describes
the || the
child's learning
of
human || of language || to
speak as though the child
came || had come to a foreign
country
and did not
understand || without understanding the
country's || its
language; that is, as though the child already
had a
language, only not this one. Or, as though the child
could already
think but
could not
speak yet || yet
speak. And here “think”
means || would mean
something like: speak to
oneself || himself.