Re: History of French

From: Nathan Sanders (nsanders.DIE.SPAM_at_wso.williams.edu)
Date: 09/20/04 

Date: Mon, 20 Sep 2004 14:07:35 GMT

In article <414F8585.C69@alphalink.com.au>,
 Jacques Guy <jguy@alphalink.com.au> wrote:

> > Mon, 20 Sep 2004 00:21:58 GMT: Nathan Sanders
> > <nsanders.DIE.SPAM@wso.williams.edu>: in sci.lang:
>
> > > Is it a coincidence that every single
> > > child on earth has a strong desire to learn
>
> until you have brought evidence that "every single child
> on earth has a strong desire to learn" yours is nothing
> but an empty "it is so because I say so" argument.

You're confusing me with mxsmanic, who believes that desire is one of
the primary factors distinguishing L1 from L2 learning. You've also
snipped the relevant context that makes it clear how my quote fits
into the disucssion as questioning his position, not affirming it.

Nathan 

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Nathan Sanders
Linguistics Program       nsanders@wso.williams.edu                           
Williams College          http://wso.williams.edu/~nsanders
Williamstown, MA 01267

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