Re: Fluency in one's language, and the ROE

> On Thu, 6 Apr 2000, Doug Ball wrote:
>
>> > Hope you don't mind, Doug!
>> Not at all!
>> > Is the world ready for it?  <GGGGGGGGG>
>> We'll have to see, but I am really looking forward to the Q&A after my
>> spiel.  As for the spiel itself that will be a true test of my nerves and
>> public speaking abilities.
>> -Doug
>>
As a follow-up, I would like to report that the presentation came off well
(i.e. my public speaking abilities came through).  The presentation seemed
to be well received, too.  The Q & A session was a bit disappointing.  The
moderator of our session lumped the Q & A session for all the speakers into
a single ten minute block.  So there weren't very many questions for me, and
there weren't very many questions in general.  I believe that Sally will
detail the questions soon, since she was the principal person who asked
questions of me.  I did get to talking to a linguaphile (a sort of wanna-be
linguistics major) after the talk, and he did ask the question, "Do you
change or tweak?" I had to respond that frequently I just change, like this
week where I moved from a SVO word order to VSO.  He was also interested in
how often I change to which I replied that, in general, it is during periods
where I have a lot of linguistic/language simulation (like this week).

As for those who asked for a copy of the presentation materials, I hope to
send those soon (like tomorrow). And if you still want a copy, there is no
immediate end to when they will be available.
-Doug