(time to be a one uping dick) well I remember all my teachers everything else is gone but I remember that so I win
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Believe it or not, my mom is friends with my old kindergarten teacher on Facebook.
She got married and had kids.
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Iāll say this about a lot of the old psychologists, a lot of their work is fascinating reading. I remember going through Gifts Differing during a period of interest in the MBTI, it was a good book, but oddā¦ Albeit really you can say that about most anything based on Jung.
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DonĀ“t see why this should be hard to believe, many people marry^^
Remember my Kindergarden time, it was horrible. A fat little boy stole my first fallen out tooth and threw it into the ball pool. IĀ“ll find him someday. The dude and my tooth.
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Oh God thatās awful! I would never forget that, it would burn within me!
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I went really insane that day, cried for hours and stayed in the ballpool for 3-4 hours xD
One of the teachers stood there with me, because I refused to abort the search. Found alot stuff, but not my tooth -.-
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I hear you, Iāve got one of those Kindergarden memories. Got hit by a soccer ball, fell over backwards, and hit my head on the edge of concrete. At the time didnāt seem like a big deal, but that was the 80s, unnerves me more these days.
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When I was in Kindergarten, They had this thing at my school called the ā3-2-1 Clubā.
Where if you were well behaved, You got put into the 3 Club and you got to do whatever you wanted.
If you did a few naughty things here and there, You got put into the 2 Club and the teachers forced you to watch a boring movie. (I got put into the 2 Club once and we were forced to watch an episode of an old Preschool show called āBig Bagā and I thought it was boring.)
If you behaved badly, You got put into the 1 Club.
And my goodness it was horrible. There was no talking, there was no smiling. And whenever you started to cry, The teachers would yell at you and make you feel worse. 
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My favorite thing that was ā ā ā ā that I did was I cursed everyone out at my preschoolā¦ ā ā ā ā ā ā ā hilarious (It was a church school so I got expelledā¦ what a fun time)
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I never did anything like that when I was in Kindergarten. 
I did things like steal toys, steal stickers from other kidās cubbies etc.
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I was just violent and angryā¦ very angry and would burst into tears out of nowhere (to be fair that stopped in 7th grade)
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I had problems controlling my emotions when I was a kid but it got worse when my hormones started raging at the age of 14.
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Good to see you here man.
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Did you see Arrival (2016)?
Iād love to chat with a neurolinguist about the different ways languages structure the way we think (solve problems, manage expectations, consider our place in society, etc.) to see which language sets would make the best ācocktailā for someone. I think youād really have to pick it up full-immersion style as a kid though, if itās going to alter the way you think. I took five years of Spanish (four in high school and one in college), but without regular practice, I can only have basic conversations nowā¦ when Iām conversing in it, my thoughts are in Spanish, but Iām not thinking in Spanish, if that makes sense. Itās more like Iām good enough at translating on the fly that I can have a basic conversation, but itās not a lens through which I see the world.
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Some people may find it traumatic remembering being breast fed or their nappy changed.
I for one wouldnāt want to dwell on either if Iām honest.
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Itās funny you should mention that, as I watched it for the first time this week and was absolutely awed. I think it was a really interesting meditation into how our consciousness is structured by language.
There definitely is a window in childhood which allows you to pick up new languages with an ease that never comes again - I guess that has something to do with brain development, though I havenāt heard definite explanations of it.
It is absolutely possible to get fluent in a language if you start it later, but itās not nearly so easy! The people I know whoāve done it best have got immersed in it, usually by necessity (going to live in that place), but I think with hard enough practice anyone can get to a point of being able to āthinkā in a second language rather than having to translate it. Not easy though!
The whole birth thing sounds pretty awful too 
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My mom told me that I pooped on the doctor when I was born.
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Yeah, I think this is why immersion as a kid (and Iām talking single digits here) is when it needs to take place if you want it to affect the way one thinks (as opposed to just being able to translate well). I picture it like the language structures we pick when weāre young up are finger painting in the wet cement that is our developing brain.
Alsoā¦ if we get these neurolinguistics locked down, it should be possible to create a language from scratch with the purpose of affecting a particular way of thinking.
Further, Iām sure there are numerous kids that are at liberty to text and otherwise converse online (with emojis, formatted text and the like) at a young enough age and with long enough exposures that itās leaving a mark in their wet cement.
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How long to thaw this yāall reckon?
This is an interesting thought, but not wholly negative. Emojis and internet slang are almost like a new set of global (or at least broadly Western) idioms for a transnational culture thatās developing with the internet
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Right? It should be different, which doesnāt define better or worse. There is some pre-defined metaphor inherent to this sort of communication, and itās also all visual, but I couldnāt fathom itās actual effect.
Case in point 
Seriously thoughā¦ thatās not something I ever hear where I live. More of a dialect difference than an actual linguistic one, Iām also fascinated by the ālineā where these nuances start and stop. New Mexico somewhere? Arizona (as you head west into Californiaā¦ youāre in Texas, no?) Where does that usage fade out?
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