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From: M.-L. Lessing <marless at gmx.de>
Subject: LL-L "Grammar" 2009.01.08 (02) [E]

Dear Luc,



thanks for the details! "Anybody can master any subject, given the right
teacher and enough time": You are right, human being adapts to the
conditions of life more or less easily. Perhaps the more easily the greater
the stimulus is. When I think of the many emigrants of the 19th century and
the changes they had to face and adapt to! With existential need in your
back and a great hope before your eyes, human brain may switch into modes
that we, grumbling about the Euro, don't dream of. -- And children do so all
the time!



As to the finer sight and hearing of the bushmen, I would love to see the
Jupiter moons without a glass or telescope! I had not heard it of the
bushmen, but I have read a similar thing about native americans: They were
able to see *by daylight* not only the moon (when there), which we also can,
but several bright stars/planets. Not at dawn, but in the bright afternoon.
The colonists wondered and controlled the points the natives had shown in
the sky, and it turned out that they fitted well with the astronomical
positions of the planets. -- Perhaps Reinhard knows something as to the
truth of this myth or non-myth?



Hartlich!



Marlou

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