QUOTE(Inverurie Jones @ Jun 29 2008, 09:58 AM)
They follow me about. 'S not my fault.
The fact you admit the follow you about actually confirms its your fault
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The fact you admit the follow you about actually confirms its your fault
QUOTE(Flaxen @ Jun 28 2008, 04:55 PM)
QUOTE(elswyth @ Jun 28 2008, 02:29 PM)
As a linguist, this topic is particularly fascinating to me. I would say that we do have thoughts outside of language but usually in the form of pictures or emotions. The reason why I say this is that I will often see a picture of what it is in my head that I want to say. So for example, I will mentally see a picture of a table and then struggle to find the right word in the right language for it because all the words are the same to me, they all represent the image. It's just when I verbalise and then get the wrong language stuck in my head that it's an issue.
I can so identify with that-the amount of times a Dutch words comes into my head and I cannot for the life of me think of the English equivalent! Very interesting as I speak English daily and rarely speak Dutch now.It's worse when you know the word for something in another language but not English. I have a fair few words like that where I know the words in French or Portuguese but not English because I never learned them.
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Well, left to my own devices I think entirely in pictures. If I try to think in words, my lips move.
I'm almost entirely the opposite. if I try to picture a dog for instance, I see the word "dog". I have to really concentrate to see a picture and then it would be bits of a dog - the nose, the tail or whatever rather than the whole thing. I can hear songs in my head and recall smells and sounds but not so much visual stuff - only when I dream.
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