Wednesday, April 27, 2011

Gatorade For Primiformis Syndrome

A children's version of the Tractatus

Al final va a ser cierto que el hecho es el elemento lógico fundamental del mundo. Al menos lo es para los niños que empiezan a hablar. Para mi hijo, que va avanzando después de sus  seis palabras  iniciales.

Sin embargo, el avance no ha sido sencillo. Después de darle nombre diariamente a los objetos que le rodean. Después de jugar a sustentivar los colores de los coches. Después de observar que disfrutaba escuchándolo todo pero nunca repetía. En fin, después de pasear con él por la calle y seguir oyendo la palabra CACA a cada papelera que nos encontrábamos por el camino, decidí pasar a la acción. Más objetos callejeros: lampposts and trees. The lamps are almost always cold (especially in winter). Are metallic conductors. The trees do not. Are made of wood, insulation. Each lamp we stopped, he touched, felt cold and followed. The same procedure for the trees, just without the cold. And so the miracle was wrought:

1) AROLA (children's version of a lamppost) = COLD

2) BAUM (tree in German because the child's grandmother is Teutonic and has also worked in this experiment ) = NO COLD

The lampposts and trees were no longer objects to become into action by the grace of my son's hand. After this, and note that those six words I always use part of their environment, they are beings or objects that it touches or verbs of motion, I understood: The tractatus .


Our first words are part of the events that surround us. Well describe the world. At least the children begin to speak.

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