Watching TV delays infant language, but don't touch that dial . . . (UNCLASSIFIED)

[Mullins, Bill AMRDEC]

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Barry Popik's emails are near unreadable for this reason.  I used to
think it had something to do with the fact that his is an AOL email
account, but now I'm not sure.

I post from a government account.  If I'm directly hooked to the LAN
where I work, using MS Outlook, mine come out pretty clear.  If I'm on
another internet connection, I have to use a web-based client, and mine
show up with these extraneous characters.  I can't make sense of them by
looking up their ASCII values, even if I assume that they are in
hexadecimal rather than decimal.




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> Sender:       American Dialect Society <ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
> Poster:       Beverly Flanigan <flanigan at OHIO.EDU>
> Subject:      Re: Watching TV delays infant language, but
> don't touch that dial
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> Just a technical question:  Lately Dennis's mailings (and
> some others too) come to me with =20, =92, etc., as below.
> Why is this, and what can I do to get them "clean"?
>
> At 12:21 AM 8/15/2007, you wrote:
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> >Sender:       American Dialect Society <ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
> >Poster:       Dennis Baron <debaron at UIUC.EDU>
> >Subject:      Watching TV delays infant language, but don't
> touch that
> >dial . .
> >               .
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> >There's a new post on the Web of Language:
> >
> >Watching TV delays infant language, but don't touch that dial . . .
> >
> >Parents regularly tell children that watching television
> will rot =20
> >their brains, and now there=92s proof.  According to Frederick =20
> >Zimmerman and his team of researchers at the University of =20
> >Washington, watching television =96 whether it=92s "American
> Idol" or
> >=20=
> >
> >"Sesame Street" =96 actually shrinks babies=92 vocabulary by
> up to six
> >= to =20 eight words per hour.  The study, published in the August,
> >2007, =20 issue of the Journal of Pediatrics, found that
> "each hour per
> >day of =20 viewing baby DVDs/videos was associated with a
> 16.99-point
> >decrement" =20=
> >
> >in cognitive development compared with babies who did not watch TV.
> >
> >Even if they were plopped down in front of so-called
> educational DVDs
> >=20=
> >
> >like Baby Einstein or not-for-profit children=92s
> programming like =20
> >"Blue=92s Clues," TV-viewing babies were falling behind
> their peers who
> >=20=
> >
> >preferred traditional children=92s literature like "Pat the Bunny."
> >=20 Babies who had never heard of Shakespeare, Mozart or
> Monet (all =20
> >available from Baby Einstein) were actually outpacing
> TV-addicted =20
> >babies in learning to talk...
> >
> >find out more on this, and other stories of language in the news, on
> >=20 the Web of Language
> >
> >www.uiuc.edu/goto/weboflanguage
> >
> >Dennis Baron
> >Professor of English and Linguistics
> >Department of English
> >University of Illinois
> >608 S. Wright St.
> >Urbana, IL 61801
> >
> >office: 217-244-0568
> >fax: 217-333-4321
> >
> >www.uiuc.edu/goto/debaron
> >
> >read the Web of Language:
> >www.uiuc.edu/goto/weboflanguage
> >
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