Chinese and (possibly Japanese??) uses "more brain"

by **japslapper** » Mon Feb 23, 2004 5:39 am

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/3025796.stm

Researchers in Britain have found that people who speak Mandarin Chinese use both sides of their brain to understand the language.

This compares to English-language speakers who only need to use one side of their brain.

This perhaps makes sense. The FGs who make the most head-way with the language seem to be Dyslexic (suffers use both sides of the brain) - and speaking many Euro- langauges before learning Japanese seems to have no advantages as far as Japanese is concerned :idea:

by **devicenull** » Mon Feb 23, 2004 8:23 am

chinese uses tones. there is more required to distinguish them than there is in english

by **Big Booger** » Mon Feb 23, 2004 10:17 am

So this proves that speaking English is easier than speaking Chinese?

by **cstaylor** » Mon Feb 23, 2004 11:22 am

It means english is more efficient.

by **devicenull** » Mon Feb 23, 2004 11:41 am

[quote="cstaylor"]It means english is more efficient. ]

fucking lies. it has 14+ vowels... we need to purify it with fire and nuke it from space

by **Caustic Saint** » Mon Feb 23, 2004 11:42 am

[quote="cstaylor"]It means english is more efficient. ]
Nah. If that were true it'd have a good, third-person indefinite pronoun. "One" doesn't cut it.

"If one wants to save money while shopping for groceries, one should..."

That sounds stupid. But "you" is grammatically incorrect, so what's a person to do?!?

by **ramchop** » Mon Feb 23, 2004 11:45 am

Caustic Saint wrote:"If one wants to save money while shopping for groceries, one should..."

That sounds stupid. But "you" is grammatically incorrect, so what's a person to do?!?

Nothing wrong with being grammatically incorrect. I'd use "you"

by **Big Booger** » Mon Feb 23, 2004 12:29 pm

grammar is for dweebs LOL

by **Socratesabroad** » Sun Mar 07, 2004 1:30 am

devicenull wrote:fucking lies. it [English] has 14+ vowels... we need to purify it with fire and nuke it from space

Or we could consider English, a Latin and Germanic amalgamation with French and Spanish influences, to be a wonderfully diverse creation, much like many of us FGs...

by **Andocrates** » Sun Mar 07, 2004 8:18 am

This perhaps makes sense. The FGs who make the most head-way with the language seem to be Dyslexic (suffers use both sides of the brain) - and speaking many Euro- langauges before learning Japanese seems to have no advantages as far as Japanese is concerned

Dude, I got a little dyslexia, yea for me.

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