WBYeats@Ireland.com wrote:
> On Mon, 15 Dec 2008 10:44:20 -0800, Rudy Canoza
> wrote:
>
>> WBYeats@Ireland.com wrote:
>>> On Sun, 14 Dec 2008 13:05:10 -0800, Rudy Canoza
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Baldin Lee Pramer wrote:
>>>>> On Dec 14, 12:18 pm, "Speeders & Drunk Drivers are MURDERERS"
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>> It should be obvious that it's a very inefficient way for a society to
>>>>>> function. If america had any brains she would celebrate mono-lingualism.
>>>>> The more languages you know, the greater your general intelligence.
>>>> False. What a ridiculous proposition. There isn't a shred of evidence
>>>> to support that claim, which is not a factual claim at all, but rather a
>>>> value judgment.
>>> Bull. The ability to learn foreign languages is an excellent measure
>>> of one's intelligence.
>> You stupid . - that's not what baldy said. He said that learning
>> foreign languages *makes* one more intelligent.
>
> The hell you say. Learning anything makes one both more learned and
> more intelligent by definition
More learned, yes; more intelligent, not at all. You clearly don't know
what intelligence is. That means you're stupid - not learned. |