Talk:Poto and Cabengo

Translation of speech sample
Would someone care to translate the speech sample? I tried a number of searches but all I got back were dozens of references to this very page. Damn and blast!

--Irongaard 14:22, 5 February 2006 (UTC)


 * I resemble that comment. Seriously, if it is not translated, what is the point? 71.156.42.198 (talk) 06:31, 30 March 2008 (UTC)
 * If you want something fixed...71.156.42.198 (talk) 06:41, 30 March 2008 (UTC)

Glossary Needed
Can't anybody describe the language more precisely? Which parts of the language were more closely related to German than English? The devoicing of dental stops at the ends of syllables?

What kinds of word classes are there in their language? Do nouns or verbs inflect, or do they need position-dependent auxiliaries to flesh out their meaning?

Another way to improve the article would be to add a glossary.

Birth
This seems to be missing a key piece of information. "Their birth was normal, and they were able to lift their heads and make eye contact with their parents within hours after birth. Doctors at the time referred to this behavior as related to a seizure disorder and speculated that both girls would become mentally retarded as a result."

What behavior was termed a "seizure disorder"? The sentence that precedes it doesn't indicate anything abnormal.75.139.35.32 10:05, 15 June 2007 (UTC)

Conflict
Why, when the Learning Channel source cited states "Children's Hospital doctors were told that the girls had suffered seizures after birth — this may have caused previously unknown brain damage. But their isolation during a critical period for language development could alone explain their speech problems. Though therapy eventually cured Virginia and Grace of their secret language, they are still developmentally disabled. Now approaching 30, the twins continue to experience speech problems and mental delays. Grace, who has achieved a higher level of functioning than her sister, works at a McDonald's cleaning tables and mopping. Virginia works at a job-training center and performs assembly-line work", which very strongly implies there was actual developmental disability (mentioning seizures and possible brain damage, and the difference between the two, one "higher level" than the other), does the article emphasise them as adults to still be "affected by their family's emotional neglect"? This almost seems like the pushing of a particular viewpoint/ narrative, what with the emphasis on the oppressive father/ half-neglectful grandmother. So were they in any way developmentally disabled, or not? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 88.109.217.17 (talk) 04:10, 27 January 2022 (UTC)