Re: The Forbidden Expariment

On Wed, 24 Nov 1999, Grandsire, C.A. wrote:

> Paul Bennett wrote:
> > That's a very good point.  I know there was a thread (ages ago)
> > about the best language(s) to talk to pets in, and I think either
> > Irina or Mia may have mentioned conwords used to/by their
> > children. I may be wrong.
>
>         I think you're right, especially reagrds to pets. Irina,
> Mia, tell us again. :)
Well, I at least am not fluent enough in anything except Dutch and
possibly English to bring up children in it, and we vaguely discussed
bringing our kids up bilingual (Dutch and English) before they were
born, but it proved to be too much of an effort in a practically
monolingual environment and it never happened.

We *do* talk to the kids in any and all languages floating around in
the house, including but not limited to conlangs. They usually ask
"what language is that?" before they ask "what does it mean?"

> > but (i.e.) twins in language-sparse situations will tend to (at
> > the very least) extend their language with conwords (and
> > congrammar?).
Ah, that's why our twins never did that (until all three of the kids
started conlanging a few months ago); they've hardly been in a
language-sparse situation :-)

   Irina


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