Referencing my previous post about over learned skills, there is another interesting aspect of skills that fascinates me.   It's the sudden reappearance of old, unused, supposedly "forgotten" skills.

During my German studies, there were often times when, if at a lost for words, I would suddenly switch to French!   Now, this in itself is amazing since it was in the mid 1970's that I studied French in high school and I rarely have used it since.   Yet, there it was again, popping up out of nowhere when I couldn't find the German words...

Do old bits of knowledge really fall onto the floor while new bits get shoved in?   Apparently not always...