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The Avon Lady
09-17-07, 06:43 AM
Literally (http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,22416798-13762,00.html?from=mostpop). :doh:
HunterICX
09-17-07, 06:58 AM
I've the same with my spanish,

somedays, maybe a hour or two my spanish changes into unbroken spanish with the andalucian accent....:doh:
Letum
09-17-07, 07:00 AM
The human brain certinaly is strange!
Perhaps this shows just how much the brain is biologicaly adapted for the use of language!
Happy Times
09-17-07, 09:24 AM
The human brain certinaly is strange!
Perhaps this shows just how much the brain is biologicaly adapted for the use of language!

And how little we get out of its potential.:hmm:
Sailor Steve
09-17-07, 10:21 AM
I suddenly have this image of a classroom: the student reads a book on the basics of another language, then the teacher whacks him on the head with a hammer.

Probably not worth the potential side effects.:dead:
Tchocky
09-17-07, 10:24 AM
I suddenly have this image of a classroom: the student reads a book on the basics of another language, then the teacher whacks him on the head with a hammer.

Probably not worth the potential side effects.:dead:
But it is worth the hilarious mental image :)

Thanks Steve!
Letum
09-17-07, 10:25 AM
The human brain certinaly is strange!
Perhaps this shows just how much the brain is biologicaly adapted for the use of language!
And how little we get out of its potential.:hmm:

I don't know about that.

Brains take up a lot of energy.
Animals tend to keep their brains as small as possible in order to preserve energy. Human brain sizes did start to snowball in terms of size after a certain point in pre-hisotry, but I really can't imagine that we have more brain mass than is used. It would just require too much energy to maintain with out benafit.

I think it is more that our brains don't usually work in the way we want them to.
Instead of a storage and processing unit that can learn to speak English with almost no training, we have a rigid brain that is resistant to changing it's self and more suited to food, flight, fight and social matters, rather than abstract thought such as mathematics or physics.
The Avon Lady
09-17-07, 11:23 AM
There's a pattern here (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=482256&in_page_id=1770&ito=1490). :shifty:
Letum
09-17-07, 11:43 AM
There's a pattern here (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=482256&in_page_id=1770&ito=1490). :shifty:


Daily Mail?
I don't trust that one for a second! :down: