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To: ought-six; bte

My IQ = 128, when I was @14.
I’m no genius. Most engineers are in that ballpark.

As for languages, I’ve no special skill. I was brought up speaking Spanish, English, and Tagalog, and I am fluent in them solely through circumstances. I have since learned French, well enough to read it effectively (I can read the newspapers, Dumas, Zola, etc., but dont make me do poetry). But I have severe problems with French conversation, no ear for it. With Spanish and French I can make a fair go at reading Italian and on a good day Portuguese. I had a couple of years of Latin. Very little has stuck, my daughter is way better at it. I am learning Basque now. Its going very slowly.


41 posted on 08/27/2023 7:02:52 PM PDT by buwaya (Strategic imperatives )
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To: buwaya

I didn’t say you were a genius. I just said that someone who is an engineer and speaks multiple languages shouldn’t have his IQ called into question.


57 posted on 08/27/2023 8:15:26 PM PDT by ought-six (Multiculturalism is national suicide, and political correctness is the cyanide capsule. )
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