Rats! Forgot the "reply to all" again! ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Sat, 17 Aug 2002 10:12:47 -0400 From: Mark A Mandel <mam at theworld.com> To: Steven Brust <skzb at dreamcafe.com> Subject: Re: OT: Subjectivity vs. Objectivity (was: bois...) On Fri, 16 Aug 2002, Steven Brust wrote: #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. Idioglossia. -- Mark A. Mandel