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Originally Posted by j.p.s
Just today, I heard a claim (which I do not accept) on Radio Lab that people do not begin thinking until they think in words.
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jps, that's something I first heard almost fifty years ago.
The thinking along those lines is that one's thoughts are limited to the vocabulary one knows.
Therefore, a Frenchman will have an idea that an Englishman will not, and vice versa, because the words of every language have their own nuances.