From sfurlong@acmenet.net Tue Feb 06 10:51:58 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: sfurlong@acmenet.net X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_0_2_1); 6 Feb 2001 18:51:58 -0000 Received: (qmail 67558 invoked from network); 6 Feb 2001 18:51:58 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.26) by l7.egroups.com with QMQP; 6 Feb 2001 18:51:58 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO shell.acmenet.net) (206.152.182.1) by mta1 with SMTP; 6 Feb 2001 18:51:57 -0000 Received: from acmenet.net (hostatt195.cgiusa.com [12.30.57.195]) by shell.acmenet.net (8.11.0/8.11.0) with ESMTP id f16Ipua00604 for ; Tue, 6 Feb 2001 13:51:56 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <3A8048B4.F1925114@acmenet.net> Date: Tue, 06 Feb 2001 13:55:48 -0500 X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Subject: Memory Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Steve Furlong Greets, all. I've gone back to school, and one of the courses requires a lot of memorization and all require a fair amount of learning of material completely new to me. I've noticed that not only am I unable to learn more vocabulary, I've forgotten almost all that I'd learned in the past two years. I'm down to about 6 gismu and a dozen cmavo. Not _all_ of this can be due to lack of use (because of lack of time to read and write lojban), as I've lost time or interest in using Lojban before, and previously always picked it up where I left it. Have any of the rest of you noticed this? Does the brain have an upper limit for taking in new material? Or am I just prematurely falling apart? Thanks, Steve Furlong