Kevin S. Wilson wrote:
On 8 May 2007 03:12:49 -0700, Django Cat
wrote:

On 4 May, 16:36, the Omrud wrote:
had it ...





On Fri, 4 May 2007 12:39:07 +0100, Adam Funk
wrote:
On 2007-05-04, Django Cat wrote:
In language learning theory 'acquisition' is the process where people
'learn' a language by being exposed to it rather than studying it.
Here's the example I always use:
"It's your first day in a country where you don't speak the language.
You walk up to a door. On the door a word you don't recognise is
written.
. . . in a language that an odd and awkward ordering of words uses.
You attempt to push the door open. You bang your nose on
it. You've just learnt the word 'pull'."
^^^^^^
I just LOVE these erudite, scholarly lectures on the fine points of
language that INEVITABLY contain misspellings. Too funny!
It might be funny if "learnt" were not a perfectly ordinary, everyday
UK spelling, used by my perfectly ordinary everyday UK compatriot Mr
Cat. Some of over here speak pretty good English.

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Thanks for making that clear, David. I just ran the whole posting
through a spell checker, and still didn't have a clue what the guy was
on about.
DC

Yabutt WITCH spell checquer did you ewes? As with dictionaries, all
spell checkers are not created equal.


IFYPFY.

Also: "all are not equal" -or- "not all are equal" ?

AlsoToo: Equal [tm] tastes teh yuck. I prefer sugar, full of sweet
carbohydratey goodness.


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