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In setting out Dunning's & Kruger's own explanation of the data (incompetent people lack the skills they’d need in order to know they’re incompetent), the auth
by mannykannot 6y ago
In setting out Dunning's & Kruger's own explanation of the data (incompetent people lack the skills they’d need in order to know they’re incompetent), the author asks, rhetorically, "If you don’t understand very many words in another language, how can you evaluate the size of your own vocabulary in relation to other people’s?" Well, as in my case, if you know many words in your native tongue that you cannot express in another language, surely that's a clue available to anyone in the same situation?
- codeflo 6y agoTrue, but it’s not perfect. Learners of English often don’t realize that they’re missing certain distinctions that their native language doesn’t make. Pig/pork is a common example. English has a lot of those.
- mannykannot 6y agoPoint taken. It has reminded me of a somewhat infamous phrasebook where, IIRC, the author simply applied a translation dictionary to phrases in his native tongue, without regard to these subtleties, or even of differences in grammar.
- jwilk 6y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_as_She_Is_Spoke https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_as_She_Is_Spoke