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| taKen Tetraglot Senior Member Norway mindofthelinguist.woRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5929 days ago 176 posts - 210 votes  Speaks: Norwegian*, English, Dutch, French Studies: German, Icelandic | Message 1 of 5 15 December 2008 at 3:23pm | IP Logged |
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Hunting Down Memory is a true story about Øyvind Aamodt, who suddenly lost 27 years of his memory. He remembered nothing from his life. NOTHING! For most people, this would have been a dreadful experience, an ominous and frightening event in their life. For Øyvind, it was an adventure. He is neither traumatized nor paralyzed, he is just curious. He wants to know what happened, but he would also like to know what cottage cheese and blueberry pie taste like.
http://www.nfi.no/english/norwegianfilms/show.html?id=902 Supposedly he speak English, French, Chinese (Mandarin?) and a couple of others. Thought it might be interesting for some people here. :) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3mVt7vyYQpE Edited by taKen on 15 December 2008 at 3:25pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Alkeides Senior Member Bhutan Joined 5960 days ago 636 posts - 644 votes | Message 2 of 5 16 December 2008 at 3:31am | IP Logged |
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His Mandarin pronunciation is quite good from what little is heard on the trailer. I don't see them explicitly stating whether he remembered any language when he woke up on the train, but I assume he did or he probably wouldn't have made it out of China?
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| TheElvenLord Diglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 5892 days ago 915 posts - 927 votes 1 sounds Speaks: Cornish, English* Studies: Spanish, French, German Studies: Portuguese, Mandarin | Message 3 of 5 16 December 2008 at 4:06am | IP Logged |
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I wish I lost my memory of all the French I knew so I could re-build it better.
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| jbiesnecker Diglot Newbie China yuehan.orgRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6152 days ago 4 posts - 9 votes Speaks: English*, Mandarin Studies: Cantonese, Shanghainese | Message 4 of 5 16 December 2008 at 5:07pm | IP Logged |
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I'm curious... if he awoke still fully able to speak several languages, how would he not know what a train is (as he mentions in the beginning)? Part of knowing a language is being able to map vocabulary onto concepts that exist in the real world. If you know what the word "train" means, then wouldn't you have to know what a train is?
My son is six months old, and I've often thought about how he sees the world. He has no past experiences to connect current experiences to, and I suppose it would be somewhat similar to this sort of situation. However he also can't speak, and is busily working in his brain to connect reality together into something coherent and describable. I'd love to get a hold of the full documentary. This is fascinating. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| zerothinking Senior Member Australia Joined 6184 days ago 528 posts - 772 votes Speaks: English* | Message 5 of 5 16 December 2008 at 7:46pm | IP Logged |
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He seemed to be a little upset to me at the end. I'm sure it would be scary in any
case. Very interesting story. Shows us a lot about the brain. ;) 1 person has voted this message useful |
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