Re: The Forbidden Experiment
From: | Padraic Brown <pbrown@...> |
Date: | Saturday, November 27, 1999, 17:57 |
On Sat, 27 Nov 1999, Jeffrey Henning wrote:
>Raymond Brown <ray.brown@...> comunu:
>
>> Yep - and I've heard that at least one person is bringing up his son in
>> Klingon as well as English!
>
>No longer! His son resisted the effort after a while, so his father
>stopped. He would speak Klingon to his son, which his son would understand,
>but the son eventually began replying in English.
That's too bad. He's learning the lesson learnt by the majority of
non-English-speaking parents in the US. The difference is, they keep
right on talking to their kids in language X.
Padraic.
>Jeffrey Henning