Re: the correlation between language, thoughts and intelligence
Chip - Kurosh might be. Who knows? But he sparked a few thoughts in me about it so I thought I'd contribute just for the hell of it.
The Haq - Yeah, that 'which language do you think in' is weird.
Weird stuff in my brain:
Take an 8-hour drive to a vacation somewhere with her and a relative or friend or whatever and they're yapping in spanish the whole way down.
After a day or two of that stuff I'm freaking DREAMING in Spanish. WTF?
I have absolutely no idea what I'm dreaming and I'm sure I'm making up some nonsense words in my subconcious too.
But I'm also picking up a lot of the words that get repeated over and over in regular conversation like "but" "exactly" "for sure" and I think I'm actually remembering slightly longer phrases for my dreams too.
I still can't speak the language. But when I'm around it enough I start to actually think in it in a very weird way and/or start to dream in it.
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