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It was written by Sidis when he was 8 years old and contained his self-invented language called 'Vendergood'. It combined features of Latin, Greek, and romance languages.
Between 6 and 8 he wrote at least 4 books and at 8 he passed the Harvard Medical School anatomy exam and then the entrance exam to MIT and also at 8 invented his own language in a book The book was ca...
— Episode: The Sad Story of William James Sidis
Episode: The Sad Story of William James Sidis
It was written by Sidis when he was 8 years old and contained his self-invented language called 'Vendergood'. It combined features of Latin, Greek, and romance languages.
Between 6 and 8 he wrote at least 4 books and at 8 he passed the Harvard Medical School anatomy exam and then the entrance exam to MIT and also at 8 invented his own language in a book The book was called Book of Vendor Good and the language was Vendor Good
Yeah, not like just some gibberish or whatever He took from like Latin and Greek and some of the Romance languages and figured out different ways to conjugate words based on this language and he created his own language It wasn't just some lame thing where words were replaced with words
Episode: The Sad Story of William James Sidis
It was a book written by him at age eight where he detailed his invented language, Vendor Good, which had a complex grammatical structure based on Latin, Greek, and Romance languages.
Between 6 and 8 he wrote at least 4 books and at 8 he passed the Harvard Medical School anatomy exam and then the entrance exam to MIT and also at 8 invented his own language in a book The book was called Book of Vendor Good and the language was Vendor Good