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Re: mu' lo' QaQ 'oSbogh mu'tlheghmey

MorphemeAddict ([email protected])

• From: [email protected]
• Subject: Re: mu' lo' QaQ 'oSbogh mu'tlheghmey
• Date: Sat, 31 Jul 2004 08:41:30 EDT

In a message dated 2004-07-30 6:45:34 PM Eastern Daylight Time, 
[email protected] writes:

> In short, I believe SuStel had it exactly right:  no one is going to learn
> to speak the language if he is given phrases from experts.
> 
Even an infant acquires language based on what he hears spoken around him.  
Everything he hears is a "phrase from an expert", i.e. a native speaker.  Of 
course, no child learns a language from some kind of bilingual phrasebook.  He 
acquires it first-hand and from scratch.  He creates his own internal grammar 
and vocabulary, which he continuously modifies as he hears new phrases.

For a second-language learner, as a Klingon student must be, the expert 
phrases I advocated would take the place of the native conversations, and the 
accompanying translation would take the place of context, including situational 
context.

lay'tel SIvten

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