Re: something i found interesting...

In a message dated 9/1/2000 11:53:59 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
yl112@CORNELL.EDU writes:

<< On Fri, 1 Sep 2000, Cathy Whitlock wrote:

 > yl112@CORNELL.EDU writes:
 >
 >  ToK!  Are you doing IB?  I got my diploma 3 years ago.  :-)
 >
 > YES! I am in IB hehe, fun fun!

 <wry g>  Good luck.  I took *all 6* exams my senior year.  Fun.

Poor you! I took the chemistry SL exam (they don't offer chem HL at my
school) in my junior year, I have the rest of them this year.

 >  <<<Hmm.  Can we know something we can't put into words?  I know I've had
the
 >  *sensation* of knowing something that then took me several minutes, or
 >  even several hours (...the latter more often with math proofs), to
 >  articulate in words.  I'd tentatively say yes, but that's just from my
 >  own feelings, not anything rigorous.  :-( >>>
 >
 > Its an interesting paradox- how would human beings have developed if we
never
 > invented a language? would we still be grunting and pointing to things
 > because of the lack of words to describe them, or would we have evolved a
 > higher form of communication?

 Higher form, such as?

 Piers Anthony in _Omnivore_ posits, frex, that this one group of aliens
 evolved telepathy, but this hindered their development of intelligence
 because there was no need to "think harder" to communicate.  I found this
 an intriguing idea in middle school.  I don't know how it would hold up
 today.

well that is basically what I was thinking of, but, as you say, it probably
would not hold up very well today- I just like the idea, I have nothing to
found this on.


 >
 Agreed.  :-)  And no, Korean wasn't my foreign language; I don't know it
 that well, unfortunately, even though it *was* the first tongue I spoke
 and wrote!  I did French IBH.

I'm in Spanish A2... dreading the oral for it, but that is besides the point!
(and for a little peace of mind... is this IB thing worth its trouble? I
don't mind hard work too much, but they go a little overboard sometimes!)

~Cathy~