{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 279/1924-06-24/p032","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"Let us take an example. Let us go back once more to the sound *a*, this sound which calls up within us the human being in a state of wonder. We must realize that every time the sound *a* appears in language there lies behind it the element of wonder. Let us take the word *Wasser* (water), or the word *Pfahl* (post), any word you like in which the sound *a* occurs. In every instance, when you lay stress on the sound *a* in speech, there lies in the background a feeling of wonder; the human being filled with wonder is brought to expression in this way by means of speech. There was a time when this was known. It was, for example, known to the Hebraic people. For what really lay behind the a, the Aleph, in the Hebrew language? What was the Aleph? It was wonder as manifested in the human being.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"I. Eurythmy as Visible Speech","site_heading":null,"date":"1924-06-24","location":null,"word_count":154,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/279/1924-06-24/p032","alignment_confidence":"medium","alignment_reason":"beads:length","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","translator":"Vera Compton-Burnett and Judith Compton-Burnett","identified_edition":"APC1956","book_title":"Eurythmy as Visible Speech","publisher":"Anthroposophical Publishing Co.","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA279/English/APC1956/19240624p02.html","evidence":"lecture_list_row","publisher_note":"The publisher is inferred from the edition code in this lecture's source URL, not stated by the source page. 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Man sollte sich bewußt sein, daß überall da, wo in der Sprache das a auftritt, irgendwie eine Verwunderung zugrunde liegt. Nehmen Sie das Wort Wasser, nehmen Sie das Wort Pfahl, was Sie wollen, irgendein Wort, in dem ein a drinnen ist. Da, wo Sie am a halten mit dem Sprechen, da liegt irgendwie eine Verwunderung zugrunde, da drückt sich der sich verwundernde Mensch in der Sprache aus. Das hat man einmal gewußt. Das wußte man selbst noch bei denjenigen, welche die hebräische Sprache handhabten; denn, was war in der hebräischen Sprache das a, das Aleph? Was war es? 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