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From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org>
To: Brad Knowles <brad.knowles@skynet.be>
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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
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