Re: [tied] Re: This week's Le Monde

From: P&G
Message: 39732
Date: 2005-08-24

> I myself think that ... isolating somenewborn children in a lab and seeing
> if they learn to speak, and how. Of course, wet-nurses would come in,
> but silence would needs be maintained from any outside influence.
> Even if the children never spoke, the simple motions of reference
> would begin to emerge.

It's been done. I think it was Frederick the Great.

Peter