What if every conversation added a chapter to the descriptive grammar of the language. What if instead of deep or high structure, each utterance provided a model of structure for the next, so that only by listening and responding, imitating and distorting–not by learning or habit–language became speakable and hearable. “I hear you” would then mean, I receive this unheard of string, and at the same time, I accept and hold it, borrow it for myself, play it and play with it. Instead of Language or even “a language” then we would find a telephone game of utterances of which no eternal image was possible, only a snapshot. This would be the confluence of historical linguistics and the theory of language.