Thread: What did you learn today?

Originally Posted by Unelias

I was talking about ie. logical learning of words and grammar. This is a little hard to explain in English, but I'll try.

Verb for go boom is "pamahtaa" in Finnish. The imitation of sound is made by taking the first part of it. So Boom Boom is "Pam Pam"
My brother who is three knew this and he was playing that he was fishing. Verb for fishing is "onkia" so naturally he simulated the action of fishing by saying "onk onk" while he played. It is very logical way to shape the language within the rules you have already learned, even if it is incorrect. It is just ignorance of the exceptions, but it is logical.

This probably was not very clear. There are many other things that children show their way of deducting connections between things.

I completely agree with you, as usual, unelias. Children are often more logical than adults, but in my view it is mostly because adults allow themselves to be trapped in the world like a bird willingly flying into their cage. perhaps children are more logical because they have not yet grasped the distractions of adulthood?

Anyway, what i learned today is no matter how hard one tries, they will never be as good of a person as they'd like to be, because they've had to try so hard in the first place. Find me someone who has tried hard to become exactly what they'd like to be, and succeeded. i tell you they are impossible to find. oh, and i'm not just talking about careers here, obviously.