{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 279/1924-06-24/p039","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"Let us suppose that I am filled with wonder, that I say *a*. I cannot make an outer image of the sound *a*, I must give utterance to it. If, however, I would give expression to something which is round in its form, like this table, for example, what must I do if I do not wish to express it in words? I must imitate it, I must copy its form, (corresponding gesture). If I would describe a nose without speaking, without actually saying the word ‘nose’ but still wishing to make myself understood, I can, as it were, copy its form, (corresponding gesture). And it is just the same in the forming of the consonants. In the consonants we have an imitation of that which exists in the external world. They are always an imitation of external forms. But we express these forms by constructing them in the air, producing them by means of the larynx and its neighbouring organs, the palate, for example. With the help of these organs we create a form which imitates, copies something which exists outside ourselves. This is even carried into the actual form of the letters, but of this we shall speak later.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"I. Eurythmy as Visible Speech","site_heading":null,"date":"1924-06-24","location":null,"word_count":201,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/279/1924-06-24/p039","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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Wenn ich aber dasjenige ausdrücken will, was rund ist, das etwas abrundet, diesen Tisch hier zum Bespiel, was tue ich denn da, wenn ich nicht sprechen will? Ich bilde es nach, ich forme es nach (entsprechende Geste). Wenn ich eine Nase abbilden will, indem ich nicht spreche, indem ich nicht sage Nase, sondern mich verständigen will, so kann ich zeichnend es hinstellen (entsprechende Geste). So ist es aber, indem ich die Konsonanten bilde. Sie sind Nachbildungen von etwas Äußerem, sie formen immer etwas Äußeres nach. Nur drücken wir diese Formen aus eben in einer Luftgestaltung, die aus den Nachbarorganen des Kehlkopfes, aus Gaumen und so weiter hervorkommt Wir bilden mit Hilfe unserer Organe eine Form aus, die nachgestaltet, nachbildet, nachahmt dasjenige, was da draußen ist. Das geht bis in die Fixierung durch die Buchstaben hinein. 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