Kids learning Lojban

[Chris Bogart <cbogart@QUETZAL.COM>]

> > >Someone has to risk fucking their progeny up first.

I'm curious if anyone here thinks this is a serious risk.  Certainly one's
progeny would be pretty malselgle if they were deliberately kept isolated
from any exposure to natlangs -- they'd have to be raised in a basement
and sleep on a mattress with the tag torn off (it has English on it!).

But seriously, it has happened that kids have grown up with only exposure
to unnatural languages; like Signed English or pidgins; and as I
understand it they naturally flesh it out into something usable.

Do kids ever learn *2* languages at home at the same time?  Friends of my
dad tried raising their boy speaking 3 languages at once: the two parents
were from different parts of India and lived in the US, and each would
talk to the kid in both their own language and English.  They panicked
when the kid started mixing the three freely, and switched to all-English.
Wouldn't he have straightened it out eventually?  Can't "code-switchers"
switch off the switching when speaking to a monoglot?  If that's been
shown to happen, it seems like this would calm the fears of parents trying
this with Lojban.  English would be "enough" for their mental
development, and Lojban could only add to it, if it had any effect at all.

co'o mi'e kris