From robin@xxxxxxx.xxx.xxx Sat Feb 20 09:23:07 1999 X-Digest-Num: 67 Message-ID: <44114.67.317.959273824@eGroups.com> Date: Sat, 20 Feb 1999 19:23:07 +0200 From: Robin Turner > > > What, exactly, does it mean? And how are you measuring 'meaning' and > > > 'difficulty' and 'Spanish' and 'English'? > > > > Take a random sample, divide them up, teach them different languages and > > compare their abilities to read a newspaper, follow a soap opera on TV, > > discuss their sex lives, etc, after a certain duration of education. > > I'm going to go ahead and assume you're not trained or interested in > learning about linguistics, mathematics, psychology or computer science. > > End of (time-wasting) discussion. {.oiro'e} It's not time-wasting for us lowly applied linguists! co'o mi'e robin.