The Black Swan (Nassim Nicholas Taleb)
- Highlight Loc. 3893-95 | Added on Monday, December 05, 2011, 06:59 PM
While the scholastic-minded will memorize declensions, the a-Platonic nonnerd will acquire, say, Serbo-Croatian by picking up potential girlfriends in bars on the outskirts of Sarajevo, or talking to cabdrivers, then fitting (if needed) grammatical rules to the knowledge he already possesses.
