Eduard,<br>
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Are you saying a Polish child whose parents constantly speak Polish 
around her but lack the time or inclination to give her &quot;hard and 
extensive explicit instruction&quot; will grow up unable to speak Polish? And
 you say this is true of most European languages? But not English? Are
 there millions of Europeans who cannot converse apart from muttering a 
few phrases? I&#39;m trying to imagine medieval Europe with a largely 
impoverished and illiterate population and presumably few with the time 
or qualifications to give this hard and extensive instruction. It&#39;s a 
wonder that those languages survived.<br><br>
I also like this list in that the dialogue is generally polite and
 free of snide remarks and biting sarcasm. On the other hand my research
 shows that simple exposure to your messages enables one to become 
fluent in sarcasm without any hard or extensive instruction at all.<br>
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Dick<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 7:25 AM, Eduard Hanganu <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:[log in to unmask]" target="_blank"><a href="/SCRIPTS/WA.EXE?LOGON=A3%3Dind1009%26L%3DATEG%26E%3Dquoted-printable%26P%3D1758379%26B%3D--0015175cb1d46df3430490f4713f%26T%3Dtext%252Fhtml%3B%2520charset%3DISO-8859-1%26pending%3D" target="_parent" >[log in to unmask]</a></a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br>
<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">I like this e-mail list. It reminds me of the open market in Rome where 
people come fresh early in the morning eager to share dreams, 
stories, and all kinds of fiction....</blockquote><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">Dabrowska makes a clear a case that Polish cannot be &quot;stolen.&quot; People canot learn Polish by simply listening to other people speak the language. The high morphological and syntactic complexity of the Polish language prevents the native speaker from reaching even intermediate levels in the language without hard and extensive explicit instruction. The same applies to German, French, Spanish, and other European languages.
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<div>You people need to get off your native dream horses, read some language research text with fresh ink on them, and rething the whole matter. Chomsky is a past thing! Long live Chomsky!</div>
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<div>Eduard<br></div></blockquote></div><br>
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