Date: Wed, 29 May 2002 17:21:36 +0930 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org> To: Brad Knowles <brad.knowles@skynet.be> Cc: Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@online.fr>, Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>, pgreen <polytarp@m-net.arbornet.org>, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Language in danger: Language loss Message-ID: <20020529172136.W82424@wantadilla.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <p05111700b917c2f4ff1c@[137.120.142.179]> 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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On Monday, 27 May 2002 at 13:09:23 +0200, 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. And if you never learnt a language, you don't think? Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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