On Thu, Mar 6, 2008 at 11:54 AM, James G. Sack (jim) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Wade Curry wrote: > > What you seem to be describing is what I've heard called a > > "super-monitor" by linguists who study 2nd language acquisition. I > > have that ability and it has helped me quite a bit. > > This "super-monitor" capability -- can you summarize what that is?
I'm not entirely positive what a "super-monitor" is, but since Wade used the term in reference to something I described earlier I'll take a shot. It's like a real-time debugger in your brain that examines thoughts for context and clarity before they're "compiled" into spoken language and expressed verbally. Sometimes I do a bit of that "compiling" manually, actually composing some or all of the actual sentence before it's uttered, but more often than not it's just mentally dissecting the thought and delibrerately ordering its various parts before engaging my jaw. -- Brad Beyenhof http://augmentedfourth.com I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use. ~ Galileo Galilei, astronomer and physicist (1564-1642) -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
