arundelo comments on The rational way to name rivers - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Emile 07 August 2014 08:27:03PM 0 points [-]

(I don't know Emile's first language.)

French, and despite liking learning languages, I'm not that good at reasoning abstractly about grammatical rules; "accusative" and "nominative" are not very salient concepts in my mind, and I have to look them up to be sure of what they mean exactly.

Comment author: arundelo 08 August 2014 12:04:52AM 0 points [-]

I am lucky in that reasoning abstractly about grammatical rules is a good fit for the way my mind works; even so, I only got good at it after I learned a second language.