From owner-freebsd-chat Mon May 27 10:38:44 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from goose.prod.itd.earthlink.net (goose.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.18]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5136A37B403 for ; Mon, 27 May 2002 10:38:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: from pool0200.cvx22-bradley.dialup.earthlink.net ([209.179.198.200] helo=mindspring.com) by goose.prod.itd.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #2) id 17COS2-00005r-00; Mon, 27 May 2002 10:38:35 -0700 Message-ID: <3CF26EF8.B0C0DCF4@mindspring.com> Date: Mon, 27 May 2002 10:38:00 -0700 From: Terry Lambert X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en]C-CCK-MCD {Sony} (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Brad Knowles Cc: Rahul Siddharthan , pgreen , chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Language in danger: Language loss References: <3CF16722.F4236AC8@mindspring.com> <20020526225602.GC1562@lpt.ens.fr> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Brad Knowles wrote: > At 12:56 AM +0200 2002/05/27, Rahul Siddharthan wrote: > >> Your ability to think about certain concepts is constrained by the > >> language(s) in which you are able to think. > > > > We don't think in languages -- we think abstractly. That is why one > > is sometimes at a loss for the "mot juste" -- you know what you want > > to say but not how to say it. > > This is not true. You are not a truly fluent speaker of a > language until you think in that language. However, that can have > it's own set of problems. If you speak a half-dozen languages, > trying to find the right word for the right object in the right > language can take quite some time. That's the beauty of English: no matter what language the word is in, the sentence is still in English. 8-) 8-). -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message