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!@#$%! · 04.08.2006, 09:19 AM

i'm not "obstinate" (but i hope im funny!), and i enjoy a discussion

i mean a decent one like we're having here-- not like arguing with khchris, with the insults & the personal attacks and the ego trips (yikes)
the question as i see is who has the truth? nobody.. but a little discussion helps to clarify things-- i enjoy that a lot
as a card-carrying geek one of my greatest sources of amusement is to discuss things with friends.... one of the reasons i was tempted by gradschool.

anyway I OWN THE TRUTH AND I WILL IMPART IT FROM MY ETHEREAL HEIGHTS
hah hah-- no way

no, but i'm looking at this not from the point of view of politics, but of linguistics instead, and the practical approaches to education-- because the educational system is absolutely fucked up.

one important note i'd like to make here-- i'm a native spanish speaker. i didn't learn english until i was like 14. not sure if this transpires in my prose. my pronounciation however is quite atrocious, hah hah, as phonetics gets frozen at an early age.

but my point is that i learned english AS A FOREIGN LANGUAGE and **already having mastery of my own**. so it was easy! if you don't have mastery of ANY language, it makes any kind of learning much harder. that's the whole point of bilingual education programs-- hang on to a language and introduce the other bit by bit.

with african american vernacular english (i'm going to drop the term "ebonics" now), a similar approach to that of bilingual education has proven successful, and yet IT HASN'T BEED ADOPTED BECAUSE OF POLITICS. which proves to me that politicians make shitty scientists. just listen to bush on global warming and you'll see what i mean!

04.08.2006, 09:19 AM	#59
!@#$%! invito al cielo Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: mars attacks Posts: 42,467	i'm not "obstinate" (but i hope im funny!), and i enjoy a discussion i mean a decent one like we're having here-- not like arguing with khchris, with the insults & the personal attacks and the ego trips (yikes) the question as i see is who has the truth? nobody.. but a little discussion helps to clarify things-- i enjoy that a lot as a card-carrying geek one of my greatest sources of amusement is to discuss things with friends.... one of the reasons i was tempted by gradschool. anyway I OWN THE TRUTH AND I WILL IMPART IT FROM MY ETHEREAL HEIGHTS hah hah-- no way no, but i'm looking at this not from the point of view of politics, but of linguistics instead, and the practical approaches to education-- because the educational system is absolutely fucked up. one important note i'd like to make here-- i'm a native spanish speaker. i didn't learn english until i was like 14. not sure if this transpires in my prose. my pronounciation however is quite atrocious, hah hah, as phonetics gets frozen at an early age. but my point is that i learned english AS A FOREIGN LANGUAGE and already having mastery of my own. so it was easy! if you don't have mastery of ANY language, it makes any kind of learning much harder. that's the whole point of bilingual education programs-- hang on to a language and introduce the other bit by bit. with african american vernacular english (i'm going to drop the term "ebonics" now), a similar approach to that of bilingual education has proven successful, and yet IT HASN'T BEED ADOPTED BECAUSE OF POLITICS. which proves to me that politicians make shitty scientists. just listen to bush on global warming and you'll see what i mean!
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