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Posted by Oliver Wong on 05/11/07 15:18
"dorayme" <doraymeRidThis@optusnet.com.au> wrote in message
news:doraymeRidThis-736FE6.08144011052007@news-vip.optusnet.com.au...
> In article <1178790873.950889.7800@w5g2000hsg.googlegroups.com>,
> Travis Newbury <TravisNewbury@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
>> When you learned to talk, did your parents start you out with College
>> level words or did they start you out with mama, papa, kaka, dodo?
>
> I hate to be pedantic, but this is a bad analogy. In fact, you
> could not have picked a worse one. Kids don't need parents to
> teach them words and often don't have them do so. They actually
> and amazingly pick up any language that is around them (not
> necessarily directed at them) till they are about 5 or 6 a bit
> like they get to be able to walk without any special tuition.
>
> It would be nice if the foundation physical structures in the
> modern brain was similarly furnished to be receptive to html and
> css. Somehow, I suspect that human evolution never provided for
> this. And, as a result, look at the painful process that has
> resulted.
That's probably because HTML and CSS don't follow the requirements of the
Universal Grammar:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_grammar
<quote>
Universal grammar is a theory of linguistics postulating principles of
grammar shared by all languages, thought to be innate to humans.
</quote>
- Oliver
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