When a group of completely language-deprived deaf children were gathered at a school in Nicaragua in the 1970s, their improvised communication soon became a fully functional sign language like any other.
In his own words, FreeSpeech helps create maps of images to represent ideas in a completely language-independent way.
As the languages are from completely different language families, the recurrence of these functions is by no means an accident; instead, the functions are to be related to each other in a certain fashion that could be specified.
The only catch is that the descriptions are in a completely invented language called Syntaflake.
"Music was a completely unfamiliar language to me when I started work on Doug.
"In order to approach modern opera, you have to learn a completely new language," he suggests.
But it gave me a completely new language and way of thinking.
It is especially tough for the elderly to master Braille because they often have less sensitive fingers and more difficulty in learning a completely new language, she said.
Not only does the NHS speak a completely different language to us but the bureaucracy is new to the way we operate.
A song could seem to fall into a rut where idiosyncrasy was indistinguishable from predictability; then a break or an ending would have the music speaking a completely different language.
But his determination to make seeing identical with thinking -- to elaborate a completely visual language -- is inspiring, and a suite of drawings suggests plenty of ideas up his sleeve.
