Representational speech will carry a good many features that are irrelevant to prediction and control, but answer to something more like a sheer desire to understand and to deploy verbal symbols in ways that enlarge the repertoire of communication that can be both purposive and more playful or (to use a loaded word) contemplative—attuned both to scientia and sapientia in the language St Augustine used to distinguish instrumental and reflective or contemplative knowing, knowing whose point is simply knowing, in the sense of intelligently enjoying the presence of the other.