Most people would readily say this is easy "English language of course" or any other local dialect they speak, but stop and think about
it for a while what language would a deaf man think in as
he would probably not
understand any actual language
If u had super powers and u were to speak to someone
through your thoughts in what language would you converse?
How do u explain yourself in your head?
It is probably a bit more confusing for those
who speaks more than one language than for those who re monodialetic and speak
only one language
how does our brains shuffle
between languages in order to pick the right language for a particular line of
thought
But how do we make the
distinction between which language to think in why,when and how?
Rhetorical huh?
In my opinion though I think there is a
universal language which all being, animals and humans alike speak and it is a
language we all understand a language made up of pictures,
for the purpose of this post we can term it "THE PICTORIAL LANGUAGE".
This is why it is possible
for two people who speak completely different languages lets say Chinese and Spanish
to actually think about the same thing or have the same idea accurately.
Think about your first house
and tell me what you see
Do u see the words F I R S T
H O U S E or do u actually have an image in your head of an actual house or think
about your C A R or your first car and tell me if u see the letters C A R or an actual
car..your dream car although not necessarily accurate but it goes to show that
we all think with pictures we create images in our head and put them in motion
So in that vein is it
actually correct to say people don't think in words or any particular language
rather we all think with pictures or PICTORIAL LANGUAGE as we have termed it
This post is thereby
argumentative as I do not really have answers to this question and am merely
laying out my opinions which are within my own sphere of reasoning...
This post is also open to constructive
criticism as I would love to understand what language you think in
At first I wanted to say I think in yoruba, pidgin n English. But after reading thru I have no choice but to agree wit u. Its d image we tink of dats comes to materialization n implementation..........u picture a tall wellfed guy wit six pack a nice haircut n so on or an eightshaped spotless lady wit beautiful long hair....wat language do we say we r thinking. I actually belief qe think in pictorial language den we interprete d tots in our various languages........nice job Bro.....
ReplyDeleteI'm about to face ♍y school panel in a matter of minutes, ofcourse I must v done something wrong... Then I start to think of excuses and lies in ♍y head.....now, I sure as hell will be damn supposing all I can amass in ♍y head are all images and not actual words that I would possibly say, so I rather say that I think in words except ofcourse when I'm visualizing (he he he).....
ReplyDeletewhat language then would a blind man think in as they cant create pictures in their head
ReplyDeleteSo wots d diff btw pictorial language n imagination. Then au do we describe loud thinking
ReplyDeleteJamb question!!!
ReplyDeleteHehehe! Ripper u av taken it P oooo,its der opinion,Dnt castigate, My opinion: I fink usin pictures,I wanna lie,steal,beat sm1,I wanna face a skool panel,I picture d judge.I picture masef doin al dos tinz.talkin abt aw blind ppl tink,I fink we ar nt in d rite position 2 answer dt ques,only if we can ask a blind person,Speakin of which picturin nd imagination ar ds sam tin, u picturin durin imagination....I rest my case.
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