From arosta@uclan.ac.uk Wed Nov 21 04:47:54 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: arosta@uclan.ac.uk X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-8_0_0_1); 21 Nov 2001 12:47:53 -0000 Received: (qmail 82318 invoked from network); 21 Nov 2001 12:47:53 -0000 Received: from unknown (216.115.97.171) by m8.grp.snv.yahoo.com with QMQP; 21 Nov 2001 12:47:53 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO com1.uclan.ac.uk) (193.61.255.3) by mta3.grp.snv.yahoo.com with SMTP; 21 Nov 2001 12:47:54 -0000 Received: from gwise-gw1.uclan.ac.uk by com1.uclan.ac.uk with SMTP (Mailer); Wed, 21 Nov 2001 12:23:49 +0000 Received: from DI1-Message_Server by gwise-gw1.uclan.ac.uk with Novell_GroupWise; Wed, 21 Nov 2001 13:00:25 +0000 Message-Id: X-Mailer: Novell GroupWise 5.5.2 Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2001 12:59:58 +0000 To: lojban Subject: Re: [lojban] Re: i want my brain cells back! Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline From: And Rosta X-Yahoo-Profile: andjamin >>> Invent Yourself 11/20/01 05:59pm >>> #On Tue, 20 Nov 2001, And Rosta wrote: #> aulun: #> #> I sympathize. I've always disliked learning other languages because i= t #> #really does feel as though one's brain is being clogged up -- as if the #> #knowledge #> #> is using limited disk quota, as it were. #> # #> #As for me, I disagree: you just have let the new language come in slowl= y #> #(finally getting the special taste of each word - i.e. having a #> #specific "picture" when thinking/pronouncing it. #> #> Yes, but this is not very practical if you're aiming for communicative #> competence, or for the ability to read texts in the language. # #You're saying the learning a language slowly isn't a good way to learn it? It's the easiest way, but the longer you take to learn it, the longer it ta= kes for you to have useful command of it, for any criteria of usefulness. #> #(tatelebn, farvos hayst men "lokshn" lokshn? - They look like lokshn, #> #smell like lokshn, taste like lokshn... No, farvos zol men zey nisht #> #haysn lokshn?!) #> #> What is this language? Some weird dialect of German? # #Yes, it's Yiddish. I had no idea Yiddish was still spoken. Do you speak Yiddish? --And.