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Re:The Bitter Fight Over the Benefits of Bilingualism by patorjk on Thursday February 11, 2016 @10:39AM (#11080717)
__cato is just pointing out that there are disadvantages, since the comment he's responding to isn't aware of any. In fact, before their comment, I wasn't aware there were disadvantages, all I'd heard is that there were advantages to being bilingual. You many think these are small things, but they're interesting and they're backed up by studies.
Re:The Bitter Fight Over the Benefits of Bilingualism by mitchtbaum on Thursday February 11, 2016 @11:43AM (#11081220)
You guys both make good points, and I appreciate you standing up for this new angle. It makes for a fuller picture of our neurological anatomy and psychological processes.

As our minds grow to handle more centrally important use cases, like cross-cultural communication and more in-depth, language-aided analysis, let alone clear communication, we need to also intelligently engineer appropriate optimizations to handle inherent slow downs. This seems like good places to pick up some useful approaches:

* http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?RulesOfOptimization

* http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?ProfileBeforeOptimizing

* http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?OptimizationPattern