From nobody@digitalkingdom.org Tue Sep 22 08:24:20 2009 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Tue, 22 Sep 2009 08:24:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Mq7E4-0002FZ-HO for lojban-list-real@lojban.org; Tue, 22 Sep 2009 08:24:20 -0700 Received: from express.cec.wustl.edu ([128.252.21.16] helo=mail.cec.wustl.edu) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Mq7Dq-0002E2-3v for lojban-list@lojban.org; Tue, 22 Sep 2009 08:24:19 -0700 Received: from grid.cec.wustl.edu (grid.cec.wustl.edu [128.252.20.97]) by mail.cec.wustl.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 37C871E8028; Tue, 22 Sep 2009 10:24:00 -0500 (CDT) Received: by grid.cec.wustl.edu (Postfix, from userid 29287) id E96071F7896; Tue, 22 Sep 2009 10:23:54 -0500 (CDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by grid.cec.wustl.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id DE3E91F7893; Tue, 22 Sep 2009 10:23:54 -0500 (CDT) Date: Tue, 22 Sep 2009 10:23:54 -0500 (CDT) From: "Adam D. Lopresto" To: lojban-list@lojban.org Subject: [lojban] Re: Fwd: lojban and raising a child bi-lingual In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: User-Agent: Alpine 2.00 (LRH 1167 2008-08-23) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: MULTIPART/MIXED; BOUNDARY="-58695404-733880328-1253633034=:27974" This message is in MIME format. The first part should be readable text, while the remaining parts are likely unreadable without MIME-aware tools. X-archive-position: 16235 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: adam@pubcrawler.org Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-list@lojban.org X-list: lojban-list ---58695404-733880328-1253633034=:27974 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, 14 Sep 2009, MorphemeAddict@wmconnect.com wrote: > In a message dated 9/14/2009 16:42:46 Eastern Daylight Time, > selckiku@gmail.com writes: >=20 > > Learning a language is difficult for anyone, even a child. =A0 >=20 >=20 >=20 > Hardly. =A0Children learn a language with no effort at all. I'm tempted to chime in on the other side, but I think http://zompist.com/whylang.html says everything I would want to, only better. Particularly the "Children learn language easily" part (wish there were an internal anchor there). = Short version: learning languages is really hard, and children don't tend to do= it if they can at all avoid it. --=20 Adam Lopresto http://cec.wustl.edu/~adam/ If Life is a test, did you remember your #2 pencil? ---58695404-733880328-1253633034=:27974-- To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to lojban-list-request@lojban.org with the subject unsubscribe, or go to http://www.lojban.org/lsg2/, or if you're really stuck, send mail to secretary@lojban.org for help.