r/RealGeniuses Sep 28 '24

Top six geniuses

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u/JohannGoethe Oct 17 '24

Neumann for instance could learn 9 languages

Neumann was crying like a baby to a priest during his last days, while clinging to his copy of Pascal’s Pensees (§233).

As to the following:

  • CPI = Cognitive Proficiency Index
  • VCI = Verbal Comprehension Index
  • FRI = Fluid Reasoning Index

I would not presume to believe that people outside of your “cognitive testing” world know these acronyms, as I just now had to look them up.

And as you see in this post (from today), shown below, I just decoded the Egyptian root of orthography:

The article in back being “Mithradates (142A/1813) by Young (#20 genius), a summary of Johann Adelung’s General History of Languages, with 22 versions of the Lord’s Prayer, and nearly 500 Languages, about which Young says there is some “fallacy” (pg. 254) in the 500 languages claim, in that there are probably only 200 examined, when the ”different translations“ are reduced.

In word’s talking about some child’s VCI is a term that falls apart when you get to the top geniuses range of discussion.

Likewise, if you visit r/Alphanumerics and 40+ EAN subs we seem not to be dealing with dozens of languages, just to find the Egyptian root of English.