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From: dcs2e@darwin.clas.virginia.edu (David Swanson)
Subject: Re: Languages: Hard, Harder, Hardest
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In article <7fybjzbsel.fsf@wisdom.cs.hku.hk>
sdlee@cs.hku.hk (Lee Sau Dan ~{@nJX6X~}) writes:

> I'm not  denying that the languages  one knows do  not  affect how one
> thinks.   However, is a  language  *necessary* for thinking?  Can  one
> think without a language?

You can think visually, you can create neologisms, you can translate. 
But there's not generally some mysterious "thought" underlying your
bits of language.  (That applies to Einstein as well.)

David

I wish I was a catfish. - J. Hendrix
