on the possibility of critique

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, and least of all by innate grammar—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 of an unrepeatable moment. This would be the confluence of historical linguistics and the theory of language.