A collection of thoughts and asides about life. And if I think of anything that needs to be mocked, it will show up here.
"If a man is offered a fact which goes against his instincts, he will scrutinize it closely, and unless the evidence is overwhelming, he will refuse to believe it. If, on the other hand, he is offered something which affords a reason for acting in accordance to his instincts, he will accept it even on the slightest evidence. The origin of myths is explained in this way."
--Bertrand Russell
I have a degree in Foreign Language Education, and have spent some time studying language acquisition. As a result, news stories about how we learn and process language are always interesting to me.
A recent study suggests that a person who is dyslexic in English probably wouldn't be dyslexic in a pictographic language, like Chinese. And Chinese dyslexics probably aren't dyslexic in English.
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