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The key word in your response is "imagine" which is literally all you're doing.



Of course. That is all anyone can do with respect to any counterfactual. So what? You were making a claim about the fidelity of my imagination:

"You have no clue what monolingual you would have been like."

And that's not true. I have several pretty good clues. Not only that, but what I imagine about the counterfactual me leads me to be able to formulate a testable hypothesis with respect to non-counterfactual situations, namely, that acquiring multiple languages in one's youth does afford some measurable cognitive advantages in general.

You can get a lot of leverage out of imagining things.




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