From owner-freebsd-chat Wed May 29 0:44:39 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from vienna9.his.com (vienna9.his.com [216.200.68.14]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 693BD37B406 for ; Wed, 29 May 2002 00:44:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [137.120.142.179] (root@[127.0.0.1]) by vienna9.his.com (8.11.6/8.10.1) with ESMTP id g4RBQFF23550; Mon, 27 May 2002 07:26:16 -0400 (EDT) Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: bs663385@pop.skynet.be (Unverified) Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <20020526225602.GC1562@lpt.ens.fr> References: <3CF16722.F4236AC8@mindspring.com> <20020526225602.GC1562@lpt.ens.fr> X-Grok: +++ath X-WebTV-Stationery: Standard; BGColor=black; TextColor=black Reply-By: Wed, 1 Jan 1984 12:34:56 +0100 X-Message-Flag: Your copy of Outlook will expire in 3 days. Please contact Microsoft about purchasing a new license. Remember: software piracy is a felony! Date: Mon, 27 May 2002 13:09:23 +0200 To: Rahul Siddharthan , Terry Lambert From: Brad Knowles Subject: Re: Language in danger: Language loss Cc: pgreen , chat@FreeBSD.ORG Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" 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 At 12:56 AM +0200 2002/05/27, Rahul Siddharthan wrote: >> 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. This is not true. You are not a truly fluent speaker of a language until you think in that language. However, that can have it's own set of problems. If you speak a half-dozen languages, trying to find the right word for the right object in the right language can take quite some time. -- Brad Knowles, "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." -Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message