Off topic: How This Amazing Woman Helped Her Unborn Child Learn to Speak 57 Languages! Thread poster: Jeff Whittaker
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Jeff Whittaker 
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DLyons
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Sounds like a load of cobblers to me
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Jeff Whittaker
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TOPIC STARTER | It's called humor / humour :-) | Jul 11, 2015 |
I think it's a parody/spoof of all the "fast" language learning sites.
DLyons wrote: Sounds like a load of cobblers to me
[Edited at 2015-07-12 14:50 GMT]
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Alex Lago
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| Photo is fake | Jul 11, 2015 |
The photo is a fake that's not an iPod that's a Blackberry.
What are they trying to pull?
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DLyons
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| OK - a load of unamusing cobblers then. | Jul 11, 2015 |
Jeff Whittaker wrote: DLyons wrote: Sounds like a load of cobblers to me [Edited at 2015-07-11 19:04 GMT]
And no I don't know an iPod from a blackberry (except the ones with thorns).
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| What kind of hoax is that? | Jul 12, 2015 |
Does anyone actually believe it. Even if it were true, which I doubt, how would anything like that impact the child's development in other areas?
Have they thought about that?
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Alex Lago
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| People keep your socks on | Jul 12, 2015 |
This is not an actual article, it is humor
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Jeff Whittaker
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TOPIC STARTER | I am so sorry for the confusion? | Jul 12, 2015 |
I thought that the satire was obvious. I guess Americans have an odd sense of humor.
The article is meant to be a parody of all the "fast language learning" sites.
[Edited at 2015-07-12 14:49 GMT]
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| Out of the mouths of babes..... | Jul 12, 2015 |
Fear not, it is so obviously intended as a spoof I'm astounded anyone was taken in.
However, I think someone must have been reading this website's discussion from two (or was it 3?) summers ago about self-reported native languages and the possibility of testing.
"My definition of fluency is that it is fluid. In other words, my definition of fluency tends to evolve in order to match my current level in a language."
That is, is it not, pretty much the stance... See more Fear not, it is so obviously intended as a spoof I'm astounded anyone was taken in.
However, I think someone must have been reading this website's discussion from two (or was it 3?) summers ago about self-reported native languages and the possibility of testing.
"My definition of fluency is that it is fluid. In other words, my definition of fluency tends to evolve in order to match my current level in a language."
That is, is it not, pretty much the stance adopted by all the liars who lie about their native language, unless I'm much mistaken. ▲ Collapse
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Thayenga
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Thank you for the smile, Jeff. Wouldn't that be awesome?
Was that how little Wolfang Amadeus Mozart became a musical genius even before he could walk?
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Rachel Fell
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Charlie Bavington wrote:
Fear not, it is so obviously intended as a spoof I'm astounded anyone was taken in.
some things never cease to astound me...
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Jeff Whittaker
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TOPIC STARTER | World's First Pregnant Man | Jul 12, 2015 |
This one has been on the internet for over a decade:
http://www.malepregnancy.com/
[Edited at 2015-07-12 14:43 GMT]
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neilmac
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| Humour/Humor? | Jul 13, 2015 |
Man: My dad speaks ten languages!
Woman: Really?
Man: Yes, but nobody understands him...
(Literal translation from Spanish)
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