Re: Yet another reason to hate Yahoo

From: Phyl (pab23_at_N0spamarama.earthlink.net)
Date: 12/26/04 

Date: Sun, 26 Dec 2004 20:52:35 GMT

Smarty Jones < wrote:

> On Sun, 26 Dec 2004 00:30:14 GMT, Phyl
> <pab23@N0spamarama.earthlink.net> wrote:
>
>
>>Smarty Jones wrote:
>>
>>>On Sat, 25 Dec 2004 12:16:15 GMT, Phyl
>>><pab23@N0spamarama.earthlink.net> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>>James H. Hood wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>Harry Krause <piedtypecase@yahoo.com> wrote in message
>>>>>news:r7ednbx-UIXCP1HcRVn-3g@comcast.com...
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>>polar wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>>Captain Infinity wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>It's been scientifically proven that English is the innate language of
>>>>>>>>the human brain. No matter what language is taught to a child as it
>>>>>>>>grows up, that language has to "overlay" the English that the brain is
>>>>>>>>born to think in. If a child is raised without hearing or reading any
>>>>>>>>language at all his brain will still think in English. So it's no
>>>>>>>>surprise that offspring of immigrants eventually speak English.
>>>>>>>>Eventually, though it may take quite a bit of time, the entire
>>>>>>>>population of Earth will speak English.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>Now that's funny.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>What's even funnier is that there are racists who believe it.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>They, at least, are harmless. The people who insist that immigrant children
>>>>>have to be taught subjects in their native language for years aren't.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>ACTUALLY...it takes children 5-7 years to begin to learn subject matter
>>>>in English if it's not their native language.
>>>>
>>>>In other words, if a child enters school at age 5, and English is his
>>>>second language, he will not begin to learn subject matter in English
>>>>as well as his English-speaking classmates until he is ten to twelve
>>>>years old. That's middle school.
>>>
>>>
>>>Complete crap. My father entered kindergarten speaking not a word of
>>>English and went on to become a very highly regarded scientist and
>>>engineer. To the day he died he could speak both his native language
>>>and English proficiently.
>>
>>
>>It's a shame that you didn't inherit his supposed ability to actually
>>comprehend what you have read, and what I've written.
>>
>>Read it again, and then ask me questions about what you still don't
>>understand.
>
>
> You wrote:
>
>
>>>>ACTUALLY...it takes children 5-7 years to begin to learn subject matter
>>>>in English if it's not their native language.
>>>>
>>>>In other words, if a child enters school at age 5, and English is his
>>>>second language, he will not begin to learn subject matter in English
>>>>as well as his English-speaking classmates until he is ten to twelve
>>>>years old. That's middle school.
>
>
> I said: That's utter crap.
> What's not to understand about your misstatement, Phyl?

What I don't understand, but am beginning to, is why you cannot base
your assertion factually.

I think I get it now - you have no facts to back up yhour erroneous claim. 

-- 
Phyl
Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, 
signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not 
fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.
--- President Dwight D. Eisenhower

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