1) What, in the light of the essay as a whole, do you think Heidegger means by the formula:
        "we try to speak about speech qua speech' (112)?

2) What is Heidegger's attitude in this essay toward the claim that
        'The ability to speak is what marks man as man' (112)?
    Has his attitude toward this claim changed over the course of the material we've read for the course?

3) Why do you think Heidegger thinks Humboldt's treatise is worth reflecting on?

4) What does Heidegger mean when he says (121):
      "The design is the drawing of the being of language, the structure of a show in which are joined the
        speakers and their speaking: what is spoken and what of it is unspoken in all that is given in the speaking."
 How does 'design' as used here connect with its use in earlier texts, say in OWA?
 How are speakers and their speaking joined in the design?
 How are what is spoken and what of it is unspoken joined?

5) What does Heidegger mean when he says (125):
      "....Saying is itself the abode of rest which grants the quiet of mutual belonging to all that belongs
        within the structure of the being of language."
 How can Saying be both speaking and quiet?

6) What does Heidegger mean when he says (129):
      "Appropriation, in beholding human nature, makes mortals appropriate for that which avows itself
        from everywhere to man in Saying, which points toward the concealed."
 How does Appropriation 'behold' human nature?
 What is it that 'avows itself from everywhere to man in saying'?
 How does Saying 'point toward the concealed'?

7) What does Heidegger mean when he says (131):
      "Silence... is itself already a corresponding.  Silence corresponds to the soundless tolling of the
        stillness of appropriating-showing Saying."