Bob,
Human aptitude for language (general aptitude and not mine in particular) is
amazing. It is easy to pick up all kinds of speech structures and then find
out afterwards what they are. So how did the brain know if it didn't know?
Colin
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From: "Bob Cooper" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Sunday, April 06, 2003 11:08 AM
Subject: Re: newsub/self-indulgent
> Hi Colin,
> Like all of what's here. The poem and the comments. Softly hits a soft
bit,
> I guess...
> And ain't the way children grasp and use their new skills at language
> amazing! Poets every one with how words combine for them, flow from them,
> the music of so much of what they say!
> Bob
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> >From: Colin dewar <[log in to unmask]>
> >Reply-To: The Pennine Poetry Works <[log in to unmask]>
> >To: [log in to unmask]
> >Subject: newsub/self-indulgent
> >Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2003 20:51:36 +0100
> >
> >New Born Child
> >
> >"Self-indulgent as a baby,"
> >the phrase that comes to mind
> >with my daughter's head
> >cradled on my palm,
> >loving not my hand,
> >only the heat it gives
> >after feeding and sleeping.
> >
> >Two days old-
> >little id- I love her still
> >as I might love an unfledged bird
> >that will become beautiful one day
> >and fly away from me.
> >
> >____________________________________
> >
> >
> >That wee kid is making up little poems of her own now:
> >
> >I'm five years old and I make no fuss
> >and my brother does all the things he's told.
> >
> >-
> >
> >I have little brother
> >and he is a little bother.
> >
> >-
> >
> >The birds on the trees are happy as can be,
> >twittering like thunder and shining like the sun.
> >
> >-
> >
> >I'm not boisterous
> >I'm girlstrous
> >
> >
> >
> > She'll overtake the old man in no time.
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