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  • #1

    Do You Think in English?

    This is obviously a question for the non-native speaker.

    Do you catch yourself sometimes thinking in English,
    or is it only possible to think in native tongue and
    translate as needed?
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  • #2
    i think a lot in portuguese these days, moreso when i'm talking to people, although sometimes when alone too.
    "The Christian way has not been tried and found wanting, it has been found to be hard and left untried" - GK Chesterton.

    "The most obvious predicition about the future is that it will be mostly like the past" - Alain de Botton

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    • #3
      I sometimes catch myself thinking in Visayan now. Only about vegetables and the weather though...

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      • #4
        What if you only think in your unconscious mind? How would you know what language you use? It could be Chinese.
        I drank beer. I like beer. I still like beer. ... Do you like beer Senator?
        - Justice Brett Kavanaugh

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        • #5
          Any language I can express myself in will do, so yeah, English is one of them.
          "An archaeologist is the best husband a women can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her." - Agatha Christie
          "Non mortem timemus, sed cogitationem mortis." - Seneca

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          • #6
            sure... you just need to be somewhere long enough to start thinking in that language too... it is also interesting to think about different ways of expression for the "same" reality, some meanings are better defined in one language than the other...

            I bet that for more than bi-lingual people it takes conscious effort to switch from one to the next and not mix up too much...
            Socrates: "Good is That at which all things aim, If one knows what the good is, one will always do what is good." Brian: "Romanes eunt domus"
            GW 2013: "and juistin bieber is gay with me and we have 10 kids we live in u.s.a in the white house with obama"

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            • #7
              I used to be able to think in German a bit, but I was really stupid in German because I knew so few words. And I can't really do that any more.
              Jon Miller: MikeH speaks the truth
              Jon Miller: MikeH is a shockingly revolting dolt and a masturbatory urine-reeking sideshow freak whose word is as valuable as an aging cow paddy.
              We've got both kinds

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              • #8
                I think in Xhosa but can't make the click sound.
                Click here if you're having trouble sleeping.
                "We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones." - François de La Rochefoucauld

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                • #9
                  Imagine if you thought in morse code, you'd be so slow.
                  Jon Miller: MikeH speaks the truth
                  Jon Miller: MikeH is a shockingly revolting dolt and a masturbatory urine-reeking sideshow freak whose word is as valuable as an aging cow paddy.
                  We've got both kinds

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                  • #10
                    ..-. .- ... - / . -. --- ..- --. .... / ..-. --- .-. / -.-- --- ..- ..--..
                    Click here if you're having trouble sleeping.
                    "We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones." - François de La Rochefoucauld

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                    • #11
                      ..-. ..- -.-. -.- / -.-- --- ..- / -.-- --- ..- / .- .-. . / -... .- -. -. . -..
                      Jon Miller: MikeH speaks the truth
                      Jon Miller: MikeH is a shockingly revolting dolt and a masturbatory urine-reeking sideshow freak whose word is as valuable as an aging cow paddy.
                      We've got both kinds

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                      • #12
                        You bypassed teh censor! I'm telling Plomp!
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                        • #13
                          Originally posted by MikeH View Post
                          Imagine if you thought in morse code, you'd be so slow.
                          I had that problem when I thought in binary, so I switch to hexadecimal
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                          • #14
                            Originally posted by Lorizael View Post
                            You bypassed teh censor! I'm telling Plomp!
                            Ban him!

                            Free Ben Kenobi now!
                            Is it me, or is MOBIUS a horrible person?

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                            • #15
                              Originally posted by VetLegion View Post
                              This is obviously a question for the non-native speaker.

                              Do you catch yourself sometimes thinking in English,
                              or is it only possible to think in native tongue and
                              translate as needed?
                              Sometimes I don't remember if what I just read was in English or Spanish
                              I need a foot massage

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