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| M. Medialis Diglot TAC 2010 Winner Senior Member Sweden Joined 6362 days ago 397 posts - 508 votes  Speaks: Swedish*, English Studies: Russian, Japanese, French | Message 1 of 18 21 January 2011 at 8:18pm | IP Logged | ||
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Alright, let's say you get the following opportunity:
If you say a word, you will forget one language completely. When you wake up tomorrow, you wont remember a word. The language will look and sound as foreign to you as any language you've never seen before. If you don't want to, nothing will happen, and your life will continue as usual. -Would you take the chance? :) -Who in the whole world would do that? I don't know, maybe you dream of rediscovering a language that you already have mastered. Reexperience the thrill of that beautiful and exotic script etc. Or maybe you just want to hear what English sounds like to a foreigner? And of course, you could do it just to test your new and powerful learning method! Any other reasons? Would you do it? :D 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Arekkusu Hexaglot Senior Member Canada bit.ly/qc_10_lec Joined 5386 days ago 3971 posts - 7747 votes Speaks: English, French*, GermanC1, Spanish, Japanese, Esperanto Studies: Italian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Romanian, Estonian | Message 2 of 18 21 January 2011 at 8:20pm | IP Logged | ||
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You could create a method to learn that language, then test it.
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| Solfrid Cristin Heptaglot Winner TAC 2011 & 2012 Senior Member Norway Joined 5339 days ago 4143 posts - 8864 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, Spanish, Swedish, French, English, German, Italian Studies: Russian | Message 3 of 18 21 January 2011 at 10:11pm | IP Logged | ||
Not in a million years. if I had too much time on my hands I would just learn new languages. 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| TerryW Senior Member United States Joined 6362 days ago 370 posts - 783 votes Speaks: English* | Message 4 of 18 22 January 2011 at 12:10am | IP Logged | ||
Maybe you should try marketing that: "The Medialis Method - The fastest way to forget a language - guaranteed!" I've been told that IV anasthesia drugs used during medical operations have an "amnesia drug" mixed in, so that you won't remember any pain. Or maybe it's so you don't remember hearing the doctor say "Oops! Oh no!" When I had wisdom teeth removed, the doc told me that the anasthesia would not knock me out, but I'd only be in a "light twilight." But when I was "brought around" when he was done, I rememberd zip, so there probably is something in there to keep you from remembering. So, I just searched and found this: Scientists find drug to banish bad memories Scientists find drug to banish bad memories By Richard Gray, Science Correspondent 01 Jul 2007 It failed to bring Jim Carrey happiness in the award-winning film Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, but scientists have now developed a way to block and even delete unwanted memories from people's brains. Researchers have found they can use drugs to wipe away single, specific memories while leaving other memories intact. By injecting an amnesia drug at the right time, when a subject was recalling a particular thought, neuro-scientists discovered they could disrupt the way the memory is stored and even make it disappear... 
"Mind melds have been used to erase memories, as Spock performed on James T. Kirk in the TOS episode 'Requiem for Methuselah.'" (Wikipedia) Edited by TerryW on 22 January 2011 at 12:18am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Phantom Kat Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 5068 days ago 160 posts - 253 votes Speaks: Spanish*, English Studies: Finnish | Message 5 of 18 22 January 2011 at 1:11am | IP Logged | ||
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No way. I rather just learn a new language than learn one I forgot. Even if I had all the time in the world, I don't know if I would have the motivation to learn Spanish and/or English. What if they don't interest me? What if they sound bland? I don't think I would trudge through a language I don't like.
... However, if there was a drug in where I could forget a language for like, say, a weekend, I would take it. Not only would it be fun to hear a language like a foreigner but I wouldn't understand my Spanish-speaking relatives. Yay, peace at last! :) - Kat Edited by Phantom Kat on 23 January 2011 at 6:10am 3 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| crackpot Triglot Senior Member Canada Joined 6306 days ago 144 posts - 178 votes Speaks: English*, French, Spanish Studies: Italian | Message 6 of 18 22 January 2011 at 12:42pm | IP Logged | ||
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Yes and no. If I didn't need English, I would like to forget it for a year so that I
could have all my experiences come to my mind via my other languages thus improving them. 3 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Bao Diglot Senior Member Germany tinyurl.com/pe4kqe5 Joined 5771 days ago 2256 posts - 4046 votes Speaks: German*, English Studies: French, Spanish, Japanese, Mandarin | Message 7 of 18 24 January 2011 at 3:51pm | IP Logged | ||
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German. That would be fun! =D
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| smallwhite Pentaglot Senior Member Australia Joined 5313 days ago 537 posts - 1045 votes Speaks: Cantonese*, English, Mandarin, French, Spanish | Message 8 of 18 24 January 2011 at 4:38pm | IP Logged | ||
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NOOOO!! But I think it would come in handy if I had learned a language badly, with incomprehensible pronunciation and lots of bad habits. I could then undo and redo the whole thing. So, what's that word? :D
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