From owner-freebsd-chat Sun May 26 15:57:52 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from postfix1-2.free.fr (postfix1-2.free.fr [213.228.0.130]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7D06737B733 for ; Sun, 26 May 2002 15:56:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: from bluerondo.a.la.turk (nas-cbv-3-62-147-138-220.dial.proxad.net [62.147.138.220]) by postfix1-2.free.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id EC17DAB4EC for ; Mon, 27 May 2002 00:56:03 +0200 (CEST) Received: (qmail 1775 invoked by uid 1001); 26 May 2002 22:56:02 -0000 Date: Mon, 27 May 2002 00:56:02 +0200 From: Rahul Siddharthan To: Terry Lambert Cc: pgreen , chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Language in danger: Language loss Message-ID: <20020526225602.GC1562@lpt.ens.fr> References: <3CF16722.F4236AC8@mindspring.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3CF16722.F4236AC8@mindspring.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.27i X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.6-PRERELEASE i386 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 Terry Lambert said on May 26, 2002 at 15:52:18: > > > http://www.spectator.co.uk/bookreview.php3?table=old§ion=current&issue=2002-05-25&id=997 > > > > Huh? > > 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. That's also why babies can learn a language in the first place. I also think in a language (various languages, depending on the situation), but then I'm basically "talking to myself" -- repeating a thought which has already been formulated. - Rahul To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message