/lit/ - Literature

>>12606181
I said, non-native speaker's need to apply. If you truly do not understand that 'Mother tongue' is an idiomatic synonym for your first-language, then you surely are ESL or a mental midget. If it was referring to the tongue of an actual mother, I would have affixed an apostrophe to the word succeeded by an 's', so clearly ambiguity cannot thence suffice to satisfactorily explain your confusion and can neither be offered up as defense.
>>12606190
Ah, so says the bilinguist devoid of any internal dialogue. This reply......this insight ascribing cope, this is more the thought of a machine than a man. Fitting, considering you've tinkered with the brains internal operating system and erased the glorious English language. What remains is some code forever rewriting itself. A bilingual mind ceases to become mind at all and is just a piece of lifeless matter animated by the machinations of determinism and not freedom. To be bilingual is to be dead.


>However, monolinguals were better able than bilinguals to discriminate between when they were right and when they were wrong. In other words, bilinguals had less insight into their performance than monolinguals. This went against our initial predictions, as we expected to find a bilingual advantage in metacognitive processing. These results indicate that bilingualism may be associated with cognitive disadvantages
>we found that bilinguals had less insight into their performance than their monolingual peers.
http://theconversation.com/there-are-also-drawbacks-to-being-bilingual-56726