{"id":2694,"date":"2007-01-16T18:52:46","date_gmt":"2007-01-16T18:52:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nimsay.blackglass.org\/2007\/01\/16\/du-bist-baka-en-serio\/"},"modified":"2007-01-16T18:52:46","modified_gmt":"2007-01-16T18:52:46","slug":"du-bist-baka-en-serio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blackglass.org\/?p=2694","title":{"rendered":"du-bist-baka-%c2%bfen-serio"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There are all these myths out there that perpetuate this downside to being bilingual.  Apparently, some people think bilinguals have a subpar vocabulary, and their intelligence is rather lacking, and it&#8217;s generally just to their detriment.  There is no room in the brain for two languages.  Except it seems that <a href=\"\/%22http:\/\/www.medicalnewstoday.com\/medicalnews.php?newsid=60646%22\">bilingualism prevents dementia<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Canadian scientists have found astonishing evidence that the lifelong use of two languages can help delay the onset of dementia symptoms by four years compared to people who are monolingual. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Imagine what three languages could do or even four.  I can picture it now.  People will be rushing to become linguists.  Parents will actually teach their children their native tongue.  Klingon will become nationally recognized.<br \/>\nAs for those myths, I found them on some website, and I can&#8217;t believe that they even exist.  Do people honestly believe that bilinguals have a lesser vocabulary?  Please don&#8217;t make me smack you.<br \/>\nVia <a href=\"\/%22http:\/\/science.slashdot.org\/article.pl?sid=07\/01\/16\/027250&#038;from=rss%22\">Slashdot<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are all these myths out there that perpetuate this downside to being bilingual. Apparently, some people think bilinguals have a subpar vocabulary, and their intelligence is rather lacking, and it&#8217;s generally just to their detriment. There is no room in the brain for two languages. Except it seems that bilingualism prevents dementia. Canadian scientists [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackglass.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2694","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackglass.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackglass.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackglass.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackglass.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2694"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blackglass.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2694\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackglass.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackglass.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackglass.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}