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Originally Posted by Jack Straw
"Only in the learning stages. Once you reach a proficiency level that qualifies as bilingual, the argument doesn't hold."
Maybe, but how many people actually reach the bilingual stage? ( I surely haven't even after years of studying Thai).
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There are plenty of bi and multi-lingual folks around, using a variety of languages. My point is that thought process and L1 are not inextricably linked. What about mathmeticians that see numbers as colors?
I think the posters claiming that intellectual capacity and the ability to think are somehow curtailed by specific L1's are full of crap. Sounds like 19th century racism: The new white man's burden is to do the world's thinking for it, because his language is so much superior.