{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 224/1923-04-13/p034","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"A short while ago, we heard a great deal about a resolve some people had made to study language. Nothing came of it, nothing at all. All manner of facts about language were collected, but the whole effort was completely lacking in spirituality. It was really so. There you had a group of young people, straight from school. At school of course, they had not yet woken up, but *now*—they are going to “study language”! They begin to plan it all and think how it will be when they have gone on studying for some time; a dazzling picture floats before their eyes of the fruit of all their labours. Actually all the preliminary steps are there; they could quite well have gone on to a recognition of the great miracle that unfolds before us when we look away from the present-day *language of thought*, through the *language of feeling*, to the *language of will*, and behold there the wonderful working and weaving of the Divine Archangels, behold too how their working and weaving stirs even yet in the language corpses of to-day. Were the life of the First Beginnings to flow again in language, what a sublime greatness were there revealed!","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"The Recovery of the Living Source of Speech","site_heading":null,"date":"1923-04-13","location":null,"word_count":202,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/224/1923-04-13/p034","alignment_confidence":"high","alignment_reason":"beads:length","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"not_established","translator":null,"identified_edition":"Singles","book_title":null,"publisher":null,"publisher_inferred":false,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA224/English/Singles/19230413p01.html","evidence":null,"reason":"no_translator_named","note":"Neither the lecture's own page nor rsarchive's lecture list names a translator for it. No translator is established for this lecture: nothing at the level of the lecture names one. 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Auf allen Gebieten, zum Beispiel auf dem Gebiete der Sprache, sagen einem die Menschen: Ja, ich soll die Sprachen studieren, aber da kommt gar nichts dabei heraus, da steht alles so nebeneinander, da ist gar nichts Geistiges darin.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":66,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/224/1923-04-13/p038"},{"locus":"GA 224/1923-04-13/p039","passage_number":39,"text":"Also es ist wirklich so, gerade wenn Menschen in ihrer Jugend, sagen wir, vom Gymnasium kommen; nun ja, da sind sie noch nicht so weit erwacht, aber jetzt sollen sie nachdenken, jetzt sollen sie an die Universität gehen und sollen Sprachen studieren. Und nun überlegen sie sich, wie dann das fortgehen wird, was sie schon im Studium der Sprachen aufgenommen haben: da wird ihnen schwummelig vor den Augen vor dem, was ihnen da blüht. Ja, alle Ansätze sind dazu vorhanden, jene Wunder kennenzulernen, die man kennenlernt, wenn man hinaufschaut von der heutigen Gedankensprache durch die Gefühlssprache zu der Willenssprache, wenn man da das Göttliche, das Erzengelartige waltend und webend schaut, wenn man es schaut, wie es heute, ich möchte sagen, in den Leichnamen der Sprachen sich zeigt. Wenn da wiederum das Leben der Ürbeginne hineinflösse, das gäbe etwas Großartiges!","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":139,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/224/1923-04-13/p039"}],"english":["GA 224/1923-04-13/p034"],"method":"length","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":205,"en_words":202,"ratio":0.99,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"verified","verified":true,"evidence":["length","reader"],"reader_german":["GA 224/1923-04-13/p038","GA 224/1923-04-13/p039"]},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":1.07,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":4874,"original_word_count":4538,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"not_established","translator":null,"identified_edition":"Singles","book_title":null,"publisher":null,"publisher_inferred":false,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA224/English/Singles/19230413p01.html","evidence":null,"reason":"no_translator_named","note":"Neither the lecture's own page nor rsarchive's lecture list names a translator for it. 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