Talk:Hyperpolyglot

Transfer to Wikitionary?

It seems that this is more of a definition of a word than a proper encylopaedia article. It's nothing that a dictionary can't handle. 67.71.43.184 17:05, 16 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Most of the information on this page from "The Gift of the Gab", New Scientist, 2481, 40-43. — Asbestos | Talk 09:22, 14 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Hilarious quote!

"On the other hand, the neurolinguist Lorain Obler has correlated hyperpolyglotism with ...talents in art, mathematics and, possibly, languages." ROFLMAO!-81.153.165.52 23:04, 9 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Well yes... Obviously funny if you omit the middle of the quote. The question is whether the Geschwind-Galaburda cluster can be said to correlate to talents in languages. — Asbestos | Talk 09:24, 10 Mar 2005 (UTC)

"Men" POV?

"Katrin Amunts [...] determined that the area of Krebs' brain responsible for language [...] was organized differently than in monolingual men"

Did she only study males, or does this somehow not apply to women, or should this be the NPOV "people" or "humans"? — Paul G 11:23, 26 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

"Anglophone" POV

The list of noted hyperpolyglots reflects a heavily anglophone sphere of reference and awareness. Even other Western European nations can supply examples to go along with this heavily British representation. It's almost just silly.

Spelling of "hyperpolyglotism"

Shouldn't this be "hyperpolyglottism" (double t)? I note that dictionary.com has either a single or a double t for "polyglot(t)ism". However, the single t makes the preceding vowel look as though it should be long (IPA /əʊ/ [UK], /oʊ/ [US]) rather than short (IPA /ɒ/ [UK], /ɑ/ [US]). — Paul G 11:28, 26 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Confusing sentence

"There are several theories as to why some people can easily learn many different languages, while others only ever learn one." What does that mean? Are we supposed to be comparing polyglots to people who tried and failed to learn other languages, or to people who never tried in the first place? If the former, it should say "... others can only ever learn one"; if the latter, we are not talking about neurology at all! Lfh 13:28, 3 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Merge with List_of_polyglots?

There was a request on the List of polyglots to merge with this page. It would make more sense to merge this page with Multilingualism as this is not a list. Incidentally I would like to delete both List of polyglots (requested but rejected) and Hyperpolyglot (as not being a notable word). Redirecting Hyperpolyglot to Mulitlingualism and adding the word to some sort of a Trivia section there may make some sense. Mlewan 06:57, 11 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]