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From: Pierre Abbat <phma@bezitopo.org>
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Subject: Re: [lojban] Lojban: it's not for babies.
Date: Sat, 07 Sep 2013 22:24:45 -0400
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On Tuesday, September 03, 2013 00:45:40 Robin Lee Powell wrote:
> As there seems some confusion:
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> My point was only that they *strongly* prefer English, because it's
> so much easier.
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> That is: their current abilities are normal and expected for their
> age.  It's the degree of difference in the difficulty, and hence
> preference, that is striking.
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> In a monolingual household, it wouldn't matter, but a monolingual
> Lojban household seems improbable.

I just asked Joel about it. Joel is Brazilian and his wife is Costa Rican;=
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they speak Portuguese to each other and to their children. When Ale was aro=
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1.5, she strongly wanted to learn English, because no one around her spoke=
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Portuguese except her parents. She even made up English-sounding words that=
 no=20
one understood. But when they visited somewhere in Florida where there's a=
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concentration of Brazilians and a Brazilian church, she was fine with=20
Portuguese. So the reason K&F want to speak English is not that Lojban is=
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harder to pronounce, but that no one else around them speaks it.

Pierre
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La sal en el mar es m=E1s que en la sangre.
Le sel dans la mer est plus que dans le sang.

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