At 12:03 AM 8/17/2002 -0500, Lydia Nickerson wrote: >Completely abandoned children, the ones that grow up in closets and are >never spoken to, are the only people we know that don't acquire language. There are cases of children growing up in complete isolation who develop "ideologues" or whatever they are called--languages only they can understand. I have a theory that Mark will be able to identify the sources for this arcane knowledge that I can't remember how I acquired.