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From: lee@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu (Greg Lee)
Newsgroups: comp.ai
Subject: Re: How fast can one learn a language? (Re: IQ is not static ...)
Message-ID: <4552@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu>
Date: 12 Aug 89 10:57:13 GMT
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From article <3800@csd4.milw.wisc.edu>, by markh@csd4.milw.wisc.edu (Mark William Hopkins):
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\  How fast can a human being master the basic essentials of a human language?

About 4 years of relatively single-minded effort.

\... I believe that it is possible to accquire ..., and basic syntax in 1 day.

Wow.  How did you get it so wrong?  I wonder what you mean by "basic
essentials".  How to name?  How to predicate?  Modify?  Quantify?

			Greg, lee@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu