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Re: CHAT: Umberto Eco and Esperanto

From:Lars Henrik Mathiesen <thorinn@...>
Date:Tuesday, June 15, 1999, 12:10
> Date: Mon, 14 Jun 1999 19:27:24 -0500 > From: Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...>
> While it might be true that the ability to acquire language is > innate, language itself is still a social skill, [...]
Well, the ability to acquire social skills is innate too. The question is whether the ability for language acquisition is totally segregated from that for general social skills. Lars Mathiesen (U of Copenhagen CS Dep) <thorinn@...> (Humour NOT marked)