Re: Please welcome . . .

Staving Mark J Reed:
>On Fri, Dec 12, 2003 at 09:20:29AM +0000, Peter Bleackley wrote:
> > >Have you considered The Experiment yet? By which, of course, I mean
> raising
> > >him to be bilingual in a conlang. Were I in your position, I think I'd
> have
> > >to consider giving my child the advantage of a native understanding of
> > >Lojban -- or possibly Maggel ;-)
>
>I'm going to attempt raising him bilingual in  English and Spanish despite
>the fact that my Spanish is non-native.  That'll be enough of a challenge. :)
>
> > Someone tried that with tlhIngan Hol. The child rejected it at the age
> of 3.
>
>I remember that.  I wonder why the child rejected the language?    Does it
>violate some universal that made the kid reject it as a valid language,
>or did he pick up something from the attitude of those around him indicating
>that they didn't treat it seriously?
I do know that tlhIngan Hol is designed to sound harsh to English speakers,
and has a phonemic inventory unknown in human languages. It's word order is
(I think) OVS - not unknown, but very rare. And, of course, there would
have been nobody else to speak it to.

Pete

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