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Cafe tupples - Intro
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If we take a particular subject, and let
experts in the field agree (is such
a thing poss) on what the various topics
are then they could be grouped as check-off
points on a person's learning history.
Each thing could be given a universal identifier
(sort of like in language) and the person would
or would not have completed a particular leaf
on the tree of knowledge (if you will).
Foreign Language
Let's remove the specifics from language by
considering all languages.
On a lot of the job forms you fill out. They
have a section on other languages that you
speak. Of course there are levels of fluency
as well. In the arts department there are
THE TRANSLATORS - not necessarily even fluent
at speaking the language, but enough in the
way that the language is used in poetry and
literature to "make the leap".
Thus, we have things:
a) Can order food in the language,
thank you, where is the bathroom? etc
b) Everyday conversation (with help)
c) All conversation (bi-lingual).
d) Grammariarn - the structure of a language.
e) Rhetorician - the way that words are put
together to form ideas.
f) Simultaneous-translator (independent
of anything else) - in some cases these
people don't even remember what they
translated; eg, at the U.N. - Audrey.
g) Translator (written) - Beckett.
h) Translator (spoken)
i) Writer in the language; eg,
technology,
literature,
fantasy - Ursula K.
narrative,
....
i) Poet in the language. Total non-linear
things. - Montale
Hmmmm....
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