[LMB] Mundane/fen body language (long)

Tzivia Adler tadler at yeshivanet.com
Mon Dec 18 22:23:13 GMT 2006


> It makes sense that people who read a lot (especially
> if they started doing so at a yong age) would
> articulate differently, but does this translate to
> media fans as well?
>
i heard about this study before, and it seems that it does =not- translate 
to media fans, bec. they don't get the plotful structured sentences.  all 
they get is dialogue

>And does it apply to, say, fans
> of mystery novels, or Jane Austen societies, who might
> well have some of the same vocacious-reading
> backgrounds?
> namaste,
> Elizabeth
>

*snerk* not sure how it applies to spoken language, but from my writing i 
can years later if i had been reading dumas at the time.  i very nearly seem 
to think that the gentleman overrides my entire internal grammer structure.

ziviya, who spent three years looking for 'the complete and unabridged count 
of monte cristo'




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