| CarmenCarmona |
January 29, 2010 12:52 PM |
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Originally Posted by Perikles
(Post 70455)
I think it depends on whom you are referring to. Some (English) people I know have a vocabulary of around 1000 words and absolutely no concept of another language nor of a development of vocabulary beyond the age of ten. This is probably quite normal. For the minority with, let's say broader horizons, I agree completely that vocabulary acquisition is never totally accomplished in any language. :)
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That's right!
And I believe that that makes me sad (this passive people you've mentioned!) because I love learning my language and the English one.
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Originally Posted by irmamar
(Post 70454)
I do not agree, when I was 1 I could speak, that's what my father said (I guess I needed the words because I needed to think :D ). I still remember my thoughts when I was 2 (and I used words to think).
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It's just an orientative age, I suppose!
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Originally Posted by Perikles
(Post 70456)
I agree - girls seem to start speaking much earlier than two years old. I guess they need the practice for later. :D:D:rolleyes:
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I'll leave the whole commentary so that you understand the context, the parts in bold are related to your post:
‘who are smarter-boys or girls?’
This reading from Current Science explains the origins of certain abilites that are believed to be influenced by gender in terms of intelligence: Research reveals that, in general, boys are better at tasks in which the ability to solve problems is involved whereas girls outstand when implementing their memory and linguistic skills.
Little boys’ aggressive nature is mainly caused by their mothers’ influence. Their mothers instigate them to become independent while little girls are usually overprotected in a more ‘gentle and dependent’ way, as the article claims.
Moreover, as young boys are most influenced by their mothers, they end up having to investigate what they should be like in order to become a man. Therefore, when children start going to school, males are led to leave their gentleness aside by struggling to solve two main problems among others, which makes them more experienced in sorting them out: to find out ‘how to be a man’ and to try to get good marks at a linguistic/academic level.
On the contrary, females do not have real difficulties in achieving the latter because their ‘nerve development’ takes place before male’s and thus they take advantage when learning the mother tongue. Therefore, females do not have to worry about solving any misadventures ‘at an early age’ and hence they lack the necessary aggressiveness to overcome subsequent obstacles, as it is stated in the reading.
In conclusion, the fact that boys are more likely to develop certain abilities than girls and viceversa stems from the lack of an equal education on the part of their parents and, as a last instance, society . Thus this prevents children from reaching a happy medium when it comes to developing their innate abilities, which does not mean that they cannot do so in the future.
Do you guys think this is the cruel reality?!
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Originally Posted by Perikles
(Post 70459)
So that is why women live much longer than men! :p:p:D
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And still we will die unsatisfied!
Sorry i'm making a mess of everything!!! |
