We too easily forget the ‘primitive’ learning games we used to acquire language from adults.

Babies are constantly inviting the adults into a nonordinary universe they participate in. Once they discover that the learning transport is unidirectional (the adults ignore their nonordinary signals), most succumb to the paradigm on offer by the adults.

But some will stubbornly sustain and develop their feral assets.

And nearly every one… will become savant…