From robin@xxxxxxx.xxx.xxx Sat Feb 20 09:23:07 1999
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Date: Sat, 20 Feb 1999 19:23:07 +0200
From: Robin Turner <robin@xxxxxxx.xxx.xxx
Subject: Re: Off Topic: NLP, le to'e melbi glico bo bangu

la kris. cusku di'e

>
> > > 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.