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Hencke
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 Message 34 of 43
17 March 2009 at 2:59pm | IP Logged 
We all have our personal likes and dislikes and different interests. Obviously, if you don't find the subject discussed here interesting, this thread will not be of much value to you, and you are perfectly free to ignore it.

Personally I do find the subject interesting, especially as I spoke briefly with Ziad Fazah myself. But considering all the contradictory information about him up to now, the picture is simply not clear enough to make up my mind what to think. I would love to see more hard evidence of what his actual abilities are in the different languages claimed.

I wonder why we are not seeing any clips of all those other TV shows we are told about, where he is supposed to have put up a better performance ? Or a clip covering that Chilean show in its entirety, with successes as well as failures ?
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 Message 35 of 43
17 March 2009 at 3:03pm | IP Logged 
Hencke wrote:
if you don't find the subject discussed here interesting, this thread will not be of much value to you, and you are perfectly free to ignore it.



Are you the Admin?
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 Message 37 of 43
17 March 2009 at 4:53pm | IP Logged 
aYa wrote:
Hencke wrote:
Obviously, if you don't find the subject discussed here interesting, this thread will not be of much value to you, and you are perfectly free to ignore it.

I do find this thread interesting, not because of Ziad Fazah himself, people's reactions simply fascinate me. I read the first thread about him with amazement, I kept on reading instead of going to bed, it's worth of a good novel.
Think of it as a collaborative drama.
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 Message 38 of 43
18 March 2009 at 4:29am | IP Logged 
Jar-ptitsa wrote:
Hencke wrote:
if you don't find the subject discussed here interesting, this thread will not be of much value to you, and you are perfectly free to ignore it.



Are you the Admin?


Why does he have to be the admin to say that?
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 Message 39 of 43
18 March 2009 at 11:37am | IP Logged 
In principle it doesn't matter how many languages a certain person in Brazil can speak. But it does matter to me where the upper limit for language learning is, and how the world master(s) got up there - if such questions didn't interest people then they wouldn't be watching WM's or Olympic games all the time. We just have a mental game here, not a physical exercise (and not a game which is decided by a few matches, but which is a long term thing, I should add). So if it hadn't been claimed that ZF was the world master in language learning then nobody would have cared.

As Hencke writes, those who aren't interested in this game can ignore it - I personally don't care about motor racing or football or curling, but I'm vaguely interested in languages. So I'm of course interested in how many languages you can learn, and how, and I get disappointed if a potential world master has to be disqualified.


Edited by Iversen on 18 March 2009 at 11:39am
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 Message 40 of 43
18 March 2009 at 12:16pm | IP Logged 
Iversen wrote:
In principle it doesn't matter how many languages a certain person in Brazil can speak. But it does matter to me where the upper limit for language learning is, and how the world master(s) got up there - if such questions didn't interest people then they wouldn't be watching WM's or Olympic games all the time. We just have a mental game here, not a physical exercise (and not a game which is decided by a few matches, but which is a long term thing, I should add). So if it hadn't been claimed that ZF was the world master in language learning then nobody would have cared.

As Hencke writes, those who aren't interested in this game can ignore it - I personally don't care about motor racing or football or curling, but I'm vaguely interested in languages. So I'm of course interested in how many languages you can learn, and how, and I get disappointed if a potential world master has to be disqualified.


I am not interested in any Guinness Book of Records winner of polyglottery, because this is not of any relevance at all for my own polyglottery project. Besides this I am not quantifying polyglottery, so my interest in this phenomenon is not based on how many languages a person speaks. Valuable for me is any information on polyglottery which I can use for my own language development. Such a high quantity of languages is irrelevant for me anyway, despite the fact whether this person's record is true of false.

Fasulye-Babylonia

Edited by Fasulye on 18 March 2009 at 4:12pm


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