ext_45697 ([identity profile] chimalis.livejournal.com) wrote in [personal profile] sarahmichigan 2007-03-02 03:00 am (UTC)

As I clicked the link, I saw that there were 81 comments on this post. I didn't read them yet, but I just wanted to say: I'm reading Richard Dawkins's book The God Delusion right now, and will try to remember to discuss it with you when I next see you (if you like).

As far as intuition as part of academic learning, I'm sort of pro this idea. Linguistics involves a lot of semantic, syntactic, and phonological intuition, and above all, morphological intuition. In fact, morphological intuition (a skill gained from reading) is how "good" speakers of English speak and write - without knowing or drawing on "rules" learned in school, but just instinctively. For me personally, spelling and memorization are also instinctive, and I can use intuition to remember names after eight years of not seeing folks or to spell an unfamiliar last name.

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