From rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org Wed Jun 06 14:26:13 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_1_3); 6 Jun 2001 21:26:13 -0000 Received: (qmail 61749 invoked from network); 6 Jun 2001 21:26:13 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.26) by l9.egroups.com with QMQP; 6 Jun 2001 21:26:13 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO chain.digitalkingdom.org) (64.169.75.101) by mta1 with SMTP; 6 Jun 2001 21:26:12 -0000 Received: from rlpowell by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 3.22 #1 (Debian)) id 157kod-0005cn-00 for ; Wed, 06 Jun 2001 14:26:11 -0700 Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2001 14:26:11 -0700 To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [lojban] RE: Rabbity Sand-Laugher Message-ID: <20010606142611.E7842@digitalkingdom.org> Mail-Followup-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.18i From: Robin Lee Powell X-Yahoo-Message-Num: 7601 On Wed, Jun 06, 2001 at 04:16:51PM -0400, pycyn@aol.com wrote: > In a message dated 6/6/2001 2:17:56 PM Central Daylight Time, > xod@sixgirls.org writes: > > > By the way, there's some strong evidence that the reason that > > > children are better at learning languages is their willingness to > > > make mistakes. > > > > > > .ie ja'o le maltcaci be le zu'o lizburna gunta le srera be'o ca'a > > zunti le zu'o nalcertu je naldarsi jbocilre .i pa'e la pycyn. zukte > > dada'o poi xlali le jbotadni .e le lojbo kambanro .i .e'unaicai Thank you for the quoting! > The trick works, of course, because, when a student makes a mistake, > he is corrected and when he does not he is praised. Thus, the > teaching gets focused on the parts that need work, not spread over the > whole territory. If the student were treated the same whether right > or wrong, he would never learn it at all or learn it very badly. This > latter approach is probably the inexpert and undeveloped Lojban > learning that xod thinks I am interfering with. I hope I am; some > nice expert and developed learning seems needed. You appear to be ipmlying that people are not corrected on the list, that everyone but you simply lavishes praise indiscriminately. This leads me to wonder what list you've been reading. -Robin -- http://www.digitalkingdom.org/~rlpowell/ BTW, I'm male, honest. le datni cu djica le nu zifre .iku'i .oi le so'e datni cu to'e te pilno je xlali -- RLP http://www.lojban.org/