--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Dec 9, 2005, at 11:29 AM, authfriend wrote: > > > How odd, you seem to have deleted what I went on > > to say, which made it clear I wasn't questioning > > the accepted scientific fact. > > It wasn't clear to me.
Well, let's have another look, shall we? (Since you snipped it again.) ---------------- The "subtle confusion" LBS refers to isn't necessarily in conflict with the principle that the younger the better in terms of second-language acquisition. The purported confusion may be on an entirely different level than that of facility in a second language. It isn't impossible that the optimal situation, in MMY's view, is a sort of trade-off between acquiring second-language facility and avoiding the subtle confusion. In other words, an older child may still be able to learn a second language well enough to become reasonably fluent in it at a point when learning it may no longer cause the subtle confusion. Or maybe not. But obviously we don't know enough, on the basis of LBS's account, to say either way. ---------------- Where in what I wrote do you see any suggestion that I was questioning accepted scientific fact? I repeat: I think you just *assumed*, in a knee-jerk fashion, that I would question established scientific fact because you have me erroneously pegged as a "true believer" (or just hope you can convince others to think I am). And therefore you didn't pay much attention to the rest of what I said. If you had, you'd have seen that I was actually accepting as a given that children learn languages more easily the younger they are. (One hint: that's why I referred to it as a "principle" rather than a "theory.") > Despite repeated accusations of having some hidden agenda in the > quoting of your email messages, there exists no such agenda, other > than in your own consciousness. Oh, goodness, it's not just *my* "email messages" (I assume you mean posts to FFL and alt.m.t) by any means. You even snip portions of your own earlier posts when they might conflict with or detract from whatever you're saying in your current post. In any case, the snipping is always in your own interest. I'm quite willing to believe, however, that the agenda may not be conscious. I suspect it's just become second nature, and you do it without even thinking about it. That out of the way, do you have any relevant comment on what I suggested, i.e., that we don't know enough about what MMY means to come to the conclusion, as you did, that he isn't to be trusted with children's education? ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Does he tell you he loves you when he hits you? Abuse. Narrated by Halle Berry. http://us.click.yahoo.com/hemMeA/rbOLAA/d1hLAA/0NYolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
