主题:【原创】闲话93:稳扎稳打和步步为营(上) -- 井底望天
Due to my experience in South East Asia, I happen to find that the more the languages a person speaks, the less the depth of his understanding of the languages is.
Its a sad news for multilinguists--they tend not to be great thinkers, if presumably languages are the necessary media of thinking; even if they are in fact great thinkers, they must be weak in execution.
But don't push to the extreme. You may say 陈寅恪 who spoke 14 languages was a great thinker. I would say, he was one of the best in academic achievements,but he was lowsy in political judgement, let alone his executive capabilities.
I trust those who speak less than 3 languages instead of those who speak 3 or more. At CCHERE, I like WXMANG and 葡萄 very much. Their english skills might be slightly below average according to the inflated CCHERE's standard, but they are really good. They are really concerned about this nation with full soul and heart, no matter how painful it would be if they foresee what others fail to see.
I admire their personalities,too. Wenn alle untreu werden (当人们不再忠诚), they are showing their true colors. They are definitely pretty near to the standards of acient Chinese gentlemen (士), if, arguably, they fail to reach the qualifications of an English gentry.
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🙂求实不求虚 10 parishg 字115 2011-05-20 06:37:10
🙂voting right才是虚的 15 老广 字197 2011-05-20 07:52:46
🙂let's agree to disagree 6 parishg 字496 2011-05-21 10:00:47
🙂multilinguism has its costs
🙂agree, but international 3 parishg 字733 2011-05-24 18:31:12
🙂我认识一些可以熟练使用法语德语的英语母语人士 云无心而出岫 字44 2011-05-24 19:46:21
🙂possibly learn by staying in 1 parishg 字230 2011-05-24 20:02:43
🙂Language not before power 2 大熊甲 字217 2011-05-24 05:02:39