[Czymra]

Well, there are multiple things that play into this, aren't there?
Is it culture/language, understanding the 'real' world or rather nature or actually knowing how to engage with that natural 'part' of the world.

I can just say that I speak about 4 languages, I'm 23 and in most of them, including my mother tongue, I probably can't come up with more than 5 or 8 names for different species of birds, flowers, plants, trees. The most common, no problem but beyond that, plainly no.

I grew up in the countryside however and to claim that 'not knowing the language is being completely ignorant toward it' is as blatant as thinking you understand an illness by giving it a name.

That children nowadays are out of touch, playing too many games, I admit to all that, but a study that engages with language I think, is a rather removed way for proving just that and falls into the quote I pasted before, which proves to some extent that grown ups always thing that the next generation is useless. But of course we focus more on the unpleasant kids than the nice ones, they're in our way after all.

Have a go, if you think I'm missing something but please explain yourself but spare me the cynicism, I don't know what to make of it and I do think that writing is about the worst media to actually communicate the true meaning of it.

Thanks.