Posted by Adrienne Boswell on 05/11/07 05:16

Gazing into my crystal ball I observed dorayme
<doraymeRidThis@optusnet.com.au> writing in 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.
>

How right you are. When Spane was about a year and half, he did
something that amazed me. I have a habit of counting to few numbers when
I am under stress. One day, I said "one, two, three, four" and Spane
said, as clear as a bell, "Five!". He was also able to pick out that
number about a month later, and a month after that, he started
learning/talking about the bus line numbers. At three and a half, I
think he knows the Glendale, CA Beeline routes better than some of the
drivers.

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