[SunkenCiv]

Wow. Okay, so, that sound I just heard was my nerd rating dropping about forty points. I feel like such an poseur now...

;’)

Thanks hennie pennie.

[hennie pennie]

Remember how decades ago, some psychologist raised his child along with a baby chimpanzee of the same age?

I guess I'd rather learn a secondary dead language as a toddler, even as strange as the choice of Klingon, than be raised along with a surrogate 'sibling' chimp, so that my parent coulc scientifically document the differences between infant & toddler humans & chimps.

LOL

"....New research even indicates that the onset of Alzheimer's disease in bilinguals is, on average, delayed by four years compared to monolinguals. The Northwestern researchers chose to study bilinguals who learned a second language at an early age and in a non-classroom study to avoid suggestions that their subjects simply were exceptionally talented or motivated foreign language learners...."

Cache at Google of May/2009 Science Daily article