Date: Mon, 27 May 2002 10:38:00 -0700 From: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> To: Brad Knowles <brad.knowles@skynet.be> Cc: Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@online.fr>, pgreen <polytarp@m-net.arbornet.org>, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Language in danger: Language loss Message-ID: <3CF26EF8.B0C0DCF4@mindspring.com> References: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0205261510470.28571-100000@m-net.arbornet.org> <3CF16722.F4236AC8@mindspring.com> <20020526225602.GC1562@lpt.ens.fr> <p05111700b917c2f4ff1c@[137.120.142.179]>
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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
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