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Re: relationship between languages spoken and intelligence
Subject:Re: relationship between languages spoken and intelligence From:Romay Jean Sitze <rositze -at- NMSU -dot- EDU> Date:Tue, 8 Nov 1994 00:29:31 -0700
I just had to ask. How do you define languages? Until recently, when I
was in a crowd of people familiar with computers, I felt I was hearing a
foreign language. Today, I can speak the lingo myself--although I will
confess that my vocabulary is still growing. I do feel that I have moved
beyond infancy.
In a very real sense, each culture, including work-place or academic
cultures, has its own language. Would the ability to communicate in more
than one also qualify as the ability to speak a foreign language? I would
argue that yes, it does make one more intelligent--if only because it
opens doors to understandings that one would otherwise never realize.
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* RoMay Sitze rositze -at- nmsu -dot- edu *
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* Results! Why, man, I have gotten *
* a lot of results. I know several *
* thousand things that won't work. *
* Thomas A. Edison *
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