Re: Language and SPM
- From: Ruud Harmsen <realemailonsite@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2006 08:53:47 +0100
29 Nov 2006 12:02:01 -0800: andrew_woode@xxxxxxxxxxx: in sci.lang:
Sad to say, some of us really speak that way, whatever outsiders might
prefer to be the case. I am reminded of a friend (RP speaker himself,
but from the Wirral and thus technically Merseyside), telling me of how
visitors to the area seemed particularly horrified by _little children_
speaking Scouse (an accent which, shall we say, has a bit of a PR
problem in the UK outside its own area). Obviously some accents are so
deprecated by some people that they don't want to believe they're quite
natural.
Or people just don't realise how language learning works. I remember
when I was 6 or 8 years old, and I heard children my own age speak
French in Southern Belgium, I was amazed that they could, because I
thought French would be a language _everybody_ could only learn in
school. The thought of native languages had never yet occurred to me.
See this URL mentioned later in the thread:
http://www.zompist.com/whylang.html
which says:
===
Some myths about language learning
Or half-myths; but those can be more dangerous than outright
falsehoods.
Languages are learned in school
===
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Ruud Harmsen - http://rudhar.com
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