From dbbb86da1686d6385dbb3c9baba8437ceb177d80 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: simon Date: Tue, 12 Nov 2019 15:39:14 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] Update 'notes/resonant_bodies_voices_memories.md' --- notes/resonant_bodies_voices_memories.md | 9 +++------ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) diff --git a/notes/resonant_bodies_voices_memories.md b/notes/resonant_bodies_voices_memories.md index 3cc8abe..9cf44c0 100644 --- a/notes/resonant_bodies_voices_memories.md +++ b/notes/resonant_bodies_voices_memories.md @@ -91,7 +91,7 @@ Not just the tongue, but also the voice of the stammerer is imagined as 19th century: efforts made "to excise the stammerer's knot of speech" (pg 138) -- German physician J. F. Dieffenbach: extended his practice of +German physician J. F. Dieffenbach: extended his practice of correcting squint to stammerers - *phonophobia* = revulsion at the imperfect voice (described by Dieffenbach) @@ -118,11 +118,8 @@ fail is for it to become adulterated, more than what it was." (pg 141) "It is surprising how often animals and other foreign bodies insinuate themselves into less than perfect utterance"(pg 141) e.g. Donald Duck, -or Porky Pig \* to have a frog in one's throat / a harelip / speaking -with a forked tongue / cat's got my tongue / to "buzz", meaning speaking -unintelligbly or emptily / and "stut" is recorded as an alternative name -for a gnat / a fly in the ointment of the voice / cuckoos as stuttering -birds +or Porky Pig +- to have a frog in one's throat / a harelip / speaking with a forked tongue / cat's got my tongue / to "buzz", meaning speaking unintelligbly or emptily / and "stut" is recorded as an alternative name for a gnat / a fly in the ointment of the voice / cuckoos as stuttering birds Stuttering has been seen as an alienation from the human - wrestling with a foreign tongue \* early Greeks dubbed those from foreign lands as