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Greg Thomson wrote:
>Now I went overboard in saying the formal details get flushed down the
>toilet once the sentence is understood, and knew it, but that was when I
>thought only Kevin would be reading it (and it was late). In fact, lots of
>formal details can be and are remembered. But there appears to be less
>memory for the formal details than for the meaning.

I think this needs to be softened even more. Greg's "formal details can be
and are remember" should possibly be changed to something like "some formal
details are remembered by some people".

The reason for saying this is that I know a weak bilingual (one language
much stronger than the other) who not only remembers no formal details, she
does not even remember the language that was used - either for things she
hears or things she says herself. And of course, there are some people with
edetic memories who remember every word.

Charles Adamson
adamson@mxu.meshnet.or.jp