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Stupid is What Stupid Does, or Says
August 8, 2008 by johnbrandy, 1 year 15 weeks ago
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I find it manifestly stupid to compare babies with adults or children that have mastered language. Even though the comparison is useful, from a research perspective, to suggest babies are stupid, is demonstratively false. This supposition utterly denies their innate capacity to acquire language understanding and grammar. In point of fact, babies are uniquely intelligent. Certain researchers are to stupid to appreciate the plasticity of the infant mind, and the necessary, and inexplicable stages of their development. Stupidity indicates; slow to apprehend, or a lack of intelligence. The slow development of infant intelligences is a well established fact. How could any intelligent person adjudge this fact as indicating stupidity. It is this very process, in infant development, that is necessary for language acquisition. I would suggest that "stupid is what stupid does, or says." Need I say more.