[ohioWfan]

Good question. I think it's mostly a question of being taught how when you're young, and practicing a lot.

I really wanted to play ball (and was unfortunately raised at a time when girls didn't have a chance), so I worked hard at doing it right.........just in the outside chance that a Cleveland Indians scout would be in the neighborhood. :)

(Mower cord? That takes me back!)

[machogirl]

Really far back for me. ;(

[machogirl]

I had wondered why most adult Chinese immigrants couldn’t say their “L’s”. When I took classes for my ESL endorsement and I had a Linguistics class, I learned that if you haven’t developed your mouth muscles as a youth that one would use in pronouncing a “L” sound, you never can do it later in life.

Same with Spanish. I learned how to trill my R’s as a kid. From what I understand from linguistics, that as an adult you can’t trill the R’s. This causes a problem in Spanish. They have words that you are supposed to “trill” and if you don’t it means something else. Like “perro and pero”.