Posted on 11/21/2009 2:58:43 PM PST by Stoat
My son speaks to my granddaughter (age 2+) in English and my daughter-in-law speaks in Spanish. My granddaughter speaks mostly English, some Spanish, but understands the Spanish. It is interesting to see how this works. She has opportunities to speak Spanish, but mostly uses English.
Children pick up languages very quickly, and if they grow up bilingual, it makes it easier for them to learn others as well later in life. That said, Klingon would be one of the more useless languages to be multilingual in.
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When weird people (no, not us!) have kids ...
P.S. I include in that young adults of college age as well.
In a mixed language community (e.g. late 1800s Hawaiian pineapple plantations) the children entertain each other through the day while their parents work. Ordinarily they create a CREOLE ~ which is a totally new language with a wider vocabulary than any single contributing language but which usually has a grammar close to that of one of the major contributors.
My understanding is that Hawaiian Creole is based on Japanese, but has an incredibly varied vocabulary. English is a Creole based on Old West Saxon ~ kinda ~ which has morphed into a totally different sort of language than those found in Europe. English, BTW, has the largest vocabulary on Earth.
I am not sure the bi-lingual hypothesis has been demonstrated to be true. I can think of several people who know 2, 3 or even 4 languages but as adults have not been able to extend understanding to a 5th or 6th language.
Don't you know he would still blame "W" for starting the economic downturn in spite of all the evidence indicting "zerO!"
This guy has some real issues.
They can’t ship the inmates to Australia anymore, so I guess they’re going to bring the jailhouses to the streets!
Great Britain... Where the Criminals carry Shivs...
You know, if the cop had a gun he might not be afraid of Klingon cosplayers...
It sounds like child abuse to me but if he wanted to see if his son would speak an invented language why didn’t he pick Tolkien’s Elven language? Tolkien was a linguist too and I’m sure he made Elven much more complete than Klingon is.
The Libs want to teach American school children a similar song.
Mmmmm, mmmmm, mmmmmm.....
English is the result of Norman soldiers trying to set up dates with Saxon barmaids.
Sindarin or Quenya?
Which is more complete and if neither which is more sophisticated? I don't know!
Me not know neither.
I am only a baby Tolkien geek.
In Tolkien’s world Sindarin was the rough equivalent of Latin and Quenya of Greek in the England of the 19th century. All educated people were presumed to know some Sindarin, but only the real geeks had much Quenya.
I wish children would speak proper English.
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