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I think it should be easy to verify that it's not really true (or at least you need to qualify this statement). I don't feel handicapped in perceiving English at all, even though I knew almost nothing before I was about 18. Now, I prefer thinking and writing in English. I have no reason to believe it's atypical.
Synthetic languages don't turn into real languages until a child grows up knowing them; English is real because children have already grown up knowing it. See creole language.
Esperanto is a real language, despite the fact that only a small fraction of its speakers grow up learning it (and it would be just as real even without those individuals).
I see; this clearly required a qualification.
I don't think there is enough of quintessential knowledge to make something native of it, we'd better work on healthy synthetic community process for now.
Are there non-language examples of this? Did it do any good for educational practices, trying to pass the material through a generation of children learning it?