From rlpowell@csclub.uwaterloo.ca Sat Nov 11 00:08:26 2000 Return-Path: X-Sender: rlpowell@calum.csclub.uwaterloo.ca X-Apparently-To: lojban@onelist.com Received: (EGP: mail-6_2_1); 11 Nov 2000 08:08:25 -0000 Received: (qmail 92971 invoked from network); 11 Nov 2000 08:08:24 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.26) by l7.egroups.com with QMQP; 11 Nov 2000 08:08:24 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO calum.csclub.uwaterloo.ca) (129.97.134.11) by mta1 with SMTP; 11 Nov 2000 08:08:24 -0000 Received: from calum.csclub.uwaterloo.ca (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by calum.csclub.uwaterloo.ca (8.9.3+Sun/8.9.3) with ESMTP id DAA13236 for ; Sat, 11 Nov 2000 03:12:06 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <200011110812.DAA13236@calum.csclub.uwaterloo.ca> To: lojban@egroups.com Subject: [Slightly OT] Total Vocab Limits? Date: Sat, 11 Nov 2000 03:12:06 -0500 X-eGroups-From: Robin Lee Powell From: Robin Lee Powell When one learns a second (or third, or nth) language, does the new vocabulary 'compete' with the old? In other words, does there seem to be a limit to the total number of words a (normal) person can learn in _all_ the languages they speak? -Robin -- http://www.csclub.uwaterloo.ca/~rlpowell/ BTW, I'm male, honest. Mistweave's admission was an appalling understatement. His right elbow had been crushed ... Yet he had spent the entire day in motion ... And the only claim he made for himself was that the pain was "considerable".