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Author Topic: Talk about having knowledge beaten into your brain...  (Read 4384 times)

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Talk about having knowledge beaten into your brain...
« on: September 15, 2007, 12:18:07 PM »
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Re: Talk about having knowledge beaten into your brain...
« Reply #1 on: September 16, 2007, 02:08:03 AM »
You had fuckin' Nowledge beaten into your brane?  That's totally nowledged up.
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Re: Talk about having knowledge beaten into your brain...
« Reply #2 on: September 17, 2007, 08:36:13 PM »
Where is the Nowleged up one, anyway?

But all seriousness put aside, that story is pretty wild!
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Re: Talk about having knowledge beaten into your brain...
« Reply #3 on: September 17, 2007, 10:26:56 PM »
I recall Fark reported a similar event in India where a kid suddenly began speaking perfect English one day (can't recall if he still spoke his original language though) around a month ago.
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Re: Talk about having knowledge beaten into your brain...
« Reply #4 on: September 18, 2007, 04:49:34 PM »
Quote from: Detta on September 17, 2007, 08:36:13 PM
Where is the Nowleged up one, anyway?


Last I heard he was in Florida.
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Re: Talk about having knowledge beaten into your brain...
« Reply #5 on: September 18, 2007, 06:00:31 PM »
Cool! I'm going to see if falling on my head will improve my Japanese skills...

私は外人です。あなたはりすですか。はい、そうです。このりすが家の部屋にありません。

IT WORKED!!!!  :-o
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Re: Talk about having knowledge beaten into your brain...
« Reply #6 on: September 19, 2007, 01:40:04 PM »
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Re: Talk about having knowledge beaten into your brain...
« Reply #7 on: September 19, 2007, 01:40:53 PM »
Quote from: ewomack on September 18, 2007, 06:00:31 PM
Cool! I'm going to see if falling on my head will improve my Japanese skills...

私は外人です。あなたはりすですか。はい、そうです。このりすが家の部屋にありません。

IT WORKED!!!!  :-o
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Re: Talk about having knowledge beaten into your brain...
« Reply #8 on: September 19, 2007, 01:56:27 PM »
Quote from: BizB on September 19, 2007, 01:40:04 PM
This kid just lost his Yorkshire accent.
http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/article-23412537-details/The+accent+transplant%3A+Brain+surgery+leaves+Yorkshire+boy+speaking+like+the+Queen/article.do

I thought that article was pretty cool there. It shows us how much we have to learn about the brain, and how it works. As per what the neurologist suggested as a theory for why he started using the Queens english, I don't agree. I would argue that it didn't cause him to re-learn how to speak, but more that accent was already stored in his head, and when the illness took hold, the pathways that held his origional accent were damaged, so instead of recreating the pathways, the brain defaulted to another set of pathways with a different accent.
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