While a small percentage of educated Indonesians spoke Dutch, Indonesian became the preferred language of intellectuals.
With the rise of instantaneous communication, business spreading across the globe and the Internet annihilating geography, conflict is rampant in this realm of language and of intellectual property.
But a toning down of political correctness would be most welcome, as would an abandonment of the jargon-filled language of the intellectual left, which ordinary people cannot understand, and know without needing to be told are not meant to understand either.
Max Talmud, a poor Jewish medical student from Poland, probably taught Einstein more at age 10 about learning and intellectual pursuit than he learned in the rest of his secondary education, because he spoke the language of the pure intellectual to a young man who was geared to understanding it and running with the ball.
A recent study followed offspring of women occupationally exposed to organic solvents and found that compared with unexposed children, these children obtained lower scores on subtests of intellectual, language, motor, and neurobehavioral functioning (Laslo-Baker et al. 2004).
Results suggested that long-term, comprehensive ABA intervention leads to (positive) medium to large effects in terms of intellectual functioning, language development, acquisition of daily living skills and social functioning in children with autism.
Since ASDs are associated with a broad range of intellectual and language skills that change over time, level of functioning and autism severity are important factors to consider when evaluating screening methods.
When the Association of South-East Asian Nations meets in Hanoi in December, the delegates will find themselves in a country that rivals Myanmar and North Korea in its inability to speak the common intellectual language of East Asia.
Classical Indian philosophy is an unbroken tradition of reflection expressed in the pan-Subcontinent intellectual language of Sanskrit.
Participants were four children with autism, who scored within the mentally retarded range on standardized tests of intellectual, adaptive, and language functioning, and three 3-year-old non-disabled children.
