From owner-freebsd-chat Wed May 29 0:51:44 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from wantadilla.lemis.com (wantadilla.lemis.com [192.109.197.80]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5BA7937B403 for ; Wed, 29 May 2002 00:51:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: by wantadilla.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id 0D98D81430; Wed, 29 May 2002 17:21:36 +0930 (CST) Date: Wed, 29 May 2002 17:21:36 +0930 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey To: Brad Knowles Cc: Rahul Siddharthan , Terry Lambert , pgreen , chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Language in danger: Language loss Message-ID: <20020529172136.W82424@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <3CF16722.F4236AC8@mindspring.com> <20020526225602.GC1562@lpt.ens.fr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.23i Organization: The FreeBSD Project Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ X-PGP-Fingerprint: 9A1B 8202 BCCE B846 F92F 09AC 22E6 F290 507A 4223 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 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