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Son Goku
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Message 9 of 53 (809660)
05-20-2017 3:58 AM
Reply to: Message 5 by Faith
05-19-2017 8:55 PM


Re: the movie is good-enough, it's the story that's important
Not necessarily. I know he's a mathematician and when he was describing himself, years ago now, he called himself a genius.
Just reading that link, I can't be the only person who thinks Dr Adequate reads as British.

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Message 11 of 53 (809702)
05-20-2017 11:32 AM
Reply to: Message 10 by Faith
05-20-2017 7:10 AM


Re: the movie is good-enough, it's the story that's important
And here I thought he was just some handsome genius American who wrote like a handsome genius British fella, my worldview has been restored.

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Son Goku
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Message 42 of 53 (809893)
05-22-2017 3:08 AM
Reply to: Message 40 by dwise1
05-22-2017 1:36 AM


Math and Language
That's an interesting take on things, I'm bilingual myself (really want to get the time to learn a third language) and have done a lot of mathematics and I don't really think of maths as a language I have to say. In fact I find switching between languages nothing like switching to maths or converting a word problem to a mathematical problem. And from the computer languages I know (low-level like C to higher-level like Haskell) I also find that a completely different skill.
Basically they're mostly independent to me.

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Son Goku
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Message 49 of 53 (809913)
05-22-2017 5:28 AM
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05-22-2017 3:51 AM


Re: Math and Language
After my divorce, I had a friend in the dance community who was wary of trying to learn a second dance. With the first dance, you have also learned the basic skills for learning a dance, so the third dance will be easy.
Having learned a second language (USA experience without considering any pre-puberty acquisition), the third and fourth and fifth languages are so much easier. Part of learning that second language involves learning how to learn another language, which itself can be considered a skill.
Thanks for this info, I am natively bilingual (i.e. both are my mother tongue) would that mean I wouldn't have acquired the skill of "learning another language" as fully as somebody who learns as an adult (just looking for your expertise here).
I'm planning to start in the summer, when a few other projects will be finished (just have to pick a language have it narrowed to three).

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