On Sat, Jun 30, 2012 at 10:53:56PM -0700, Sameer Verma wrote: > On Sat, Jun 30, 2012 at 11:32 AM, Sameer Verma <sve...@sfsu.edu> wrote: > > Oh, I forgot to mention this: Children in Bhagmalpur are fluent in > Hindi (reading, writing and speaking), but their English is quite > poor. Yet, they've stumbled along on the English localization of > Sugar. Some time ago, two kids accidentally switched Sugar to Spanish, > and...for whatever reason, they just kept going. Now we have two kids > who use Sugar in Spanish, with no prior knowledge of Spanish, and are > still able to navigate the UI and get things done. > > Go figure :-)
That is a fascinating anecdote. Could it be that they just associate a unit of latin symbols with an action or that they have a vague idea that this is spanish? Would it be interesting to show them some kindergarten word examples like 'one, two, three, boy, girl'? Maybe the makings of a new OLPC-type literacy experiment? -- | .''`. == Debian GNU/Linux ==.| http://kevix.myopenid.com......| | : :' : The Universal OS....| mysite.verizon.net/kevin.mark/.| | `. `' http://www.debian.org/.| http://counter.li.org [#238656]| |___`-____Unless I ask to be CCd,.assume I am subscribed._________| <knghtbrd> but one sort per tab and none per list is arguably better than O(n + n**2) per tab and O(n**2) per list. <knghtbrd> OMG, someone shoot me. <Coderjoe2> ? <knghtbrd> I can't believe I just used the big goose-egg to explain why my way is probably best in the long run. _______________________________________________ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel