The Language of Thought
22nd December 2015
One often reads of people who aren’t confident that they’ve really learned a foreign language until they ‘start thinking in it’.
Feh. I don’t think in English, or any other language. I think in ‘me’.
If you see me hesitate before speaking, it’s the process of translation. This can sometimes be pretty heavy lifting, since the brilliance of my thought is usually such that mere human language is inadequate to contain it.
So whatever you hear me say — or write — is never as good as the original. Trust me.
Consider that before you make a response.