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I'm sure it pissed the janitor right off whenever the school bell rang.

Einstein was 26 when he published his first try on the theory of relativity, let's give the boy a few years...

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Originally posted by Domesticated a languages person

Really? REALLY? That's what you're going with?

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Originally posted by dj_alfi Really? REALLY? That's what you're going with?

Why? What's so unremarkable about languages?

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Originally posted by Halcyon+On+On I'm sure it pissed the janitor right off whenever the school bell rang.

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Originally posted by igottaknow yeah but how big is his dick? huh? and i'm not just talk'in length, girth too.

I developed my own theory of relativity and realized it wasn't relative.

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Originally posted by igottaknow yeah but how big is his dick? huh? and i'm not just talk'in length, girth too.

inquiring pedophiles want to know?

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Originally posted by Lira Why? What's so unremarkable about languages?

I never said there was anything unremarkable about languages.

I was commenting on his choice of words. A "languages person"?! C'mooon!!!!

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Originally posted by dj_alfi I never said there was anything unremarkable about languages. I was merely commenting on his choice of words. A "languages person"?! C'mooon!!!!

Oh, sorry, it sounded like you disagreed with him for some obscure reason

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Originally posted by MrJiveBoJingles It is odd, yes. "Math prodigy" is a common phrase, and also "musical prodigy," but I have never even seen "language prodigy" (for example) written out before, much less read about one in the news.

Actually there's a kid in the UK that can basically learn any language. Apparently he has this crazy gift for not just remembering the words, but exact phonetic pronunciation, with the ability to recite it.

Age 10, 11 languages....

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/ukn...11-tongues.html

Actually my brother in law is borderline language genius - he speaks and writes 7 languages fluently (And I mean perfectly native including German, Swiss German, Italian, French, English, Spanish, Portugese and Creole) ,4 self taught and is conversational level in about 5 more (including some fucking tough ones like Romanian, Dzongkha (Bhutan), and Arabic).

It's truly fucking freaky. If you go to a foreign country with him with for anything than more than a week, he picks up the language.

what a boss

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Originally posted by DJ RANN Actually there's a kid in the UK that can basically learn any language. Apparently he has this crazy gift for not just remembering the words, but exact phonetic pronunciation, with the ability to recite it. Age 10, 11 languages.... http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/ukn...11-tongues.html Actually my brother in law is borderline language genius - he speaks and writes 7 languages fluently (And I mean perfectly native including German, Swiss German, Italian, French, English, Spanish, Portugese and Creole) ,4 self taught and is conversational level in about 5 more (including some fucking tough ones like Romanian, Dzongkha (Bhutan), and Arabic). It's truly fucking freaky. If you go to a foreign country with him with for anything than more than a week, he picks up the language.

that's awesome! Obviously its your brother so don't want to be too invasive, but do linguist geniuses suffer from the same 'weirdness' other academic geniuses generally do?

i.e: Is your brother fairly normal?
Language would conceivably belong to a fairly different part of the brain so it'd be fairly interesting

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Originally posted by EgosXII that's awesome! Obviously its your brother so don't want to be too invasive, but do linguist geniuses suffer from the same 'weirdness' other academic geniuses generally do? i.e: Is your brother fairly normal? Language would conceivably belong to a fairly different part of the brain so it'd be fairly interesting

Not really. he's a little eccentric, but none more so than others.

I think a big thing has to do with the fact he's swiss, so he was rbought up speaking Swiss-German, French and Italian, but as Swiss is not a written language, you also have to speak High German and that's what you also write.

I think nationalities like that have a headstart, at least on the comparative learning aspects of language, which I think plays a huge part in us being able to learn languages. I think once you know two or three languages fluently, others become far easier to learn.

He then learned english in school, and his job is a forest engineer and GIS expert, meaning he's spent extended periods of time all over south america, most of Europe, the East and Haiti.

So combine this experiences with a natural knack or predisposition for languages and I think that's why he's so good at them.

It's weird, he's not really artistic which is what I thought would be a impersonality trait - he is however extremely analytical and his job is to make sense and create usable information from incredibly large sets of data.

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Originally posted by DJ RANN Not really. he's a little eccentric, but none more so than others. I think a big thing has to do with the fact he's swiss, so he was rbought up speaking Swiss-German, French and Italian, but as Swiss is not a written language, you also have to speak High German and that's what you also write. I think nationalities like that have a headstart, at least on the comparative learning aspects of language, which I think plays a huge part in us being able to learn languages. I think once you know two or three languages fluently, others become far easier to learn. He then learned english in school, and his job is a forest engineer and GIS expert, meaning he's spent extended periods of time all over south america, most of Europe, the East and Haiti. So combine this experiences with a natural knack or predisposition for languages and I think that's why he's so good at them. It's weird, he's not really artistic which is what I thought would be a impersonality trait - he is however extremely analytical and his job is to make sense and create usable information from incredibly large sets of data.

Interesting! non-english speakers ironically have an advantage in language because they usually have to learn english... english speakers are generally not forced by the international nature of the world to learn any other language... Lots of linguistic imperialism going on there, but i spose thats another form of the ambiguous 'globalisation' at work

sounds like your brother has an interesting job!

Many children in southwest Macedonia speak 3 or 4 languages. My friend knows English from school, Albanian from being born Albanian, Macedonian because he lives in Macedonia, Turkish because there's a large number of Turks nearby and Turkish soap operas on TV, and German from watching German cartoons cuz hell, what other kinds of cartoons are you going to find in southwest Macedonia?

Albanian and Macedonian are pretty much given, since they are both official languages of the country. Then after a certain age (like 16) they all pretty much know English. Then there's an extra one or two you pick up from nearby people or watching television.

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Originally posted by Jackson Seems strange that there are quite a few young kids with an exceptional grasp on maths/physics...and not other subjects.

Evolution mate, whe are the old generation now...

I'm just gonna say, thats insane. About the numbers in his head ya know. I mean, i don't think i could go to bed with numbers in my head. Thad be just trippy.

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