Vonnegut Meets Rumi: The Karass Hypothesis

Abstract

In this paper we present a novel way of understanding the experience of
successful language acquisition and even life success. We hesitate to call our
ideas and explanations “hypotheses”; at this stage they are mere “conjectures,”
clearly not yet ready to undergo the scrutiny that respectable hypotheses need to
experience. Our hope is that this discussion will lead to hypothesis-testing and
real progress.