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Ah. Well. I suppose that makes a bit more sense.
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They don't typically let new RAF trainees bomb actual people.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 kindsComment
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not anymore anyway.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 kindsComment
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I mean, to be fair, in the days of the empire did native Burmans really count as people?If there is no sound in space, how come you can hear the lasers?
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WWI WWIIJon 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 kindsComment
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I think in images
I only use words when I'm writing or preparing to speak to someone about somethingTo us, it is the BEAST.Comment
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If I want to "think" about my quickest route to work, I visualise it in space and time from experience, I may even point and wag my figure as I stare into space, I don't think of it in a language. Similarly dreams (which are sometimes commented on as being your brain processing what it has experienced) are, for me, audio-visual-emotion not language driven.Originally posted by MikeH View Post
And it stops the thought process in its tracks until you find some way to express the concept in language (or symbology or mathematics) and you can move on.
You might as well say "Can you communicate without a language?". It makes it a trivial point.One day Canada will rule the world, and then we'll all be sorry.Comment
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btw, waht is a non-native speaker?
you got somethin against indians?
To us, it is the BEAST.Comment
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To answer the OP, non-native speakers probably do not think in English but in their native language, after which they might perform some mental word by word translation.
This is how you get little gems, such as when a new Dutch secretary of state introduced herself abroad: ¨I am the state´s secretary, and I´m having my first period¨Comment
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When writing and talking in English, I think in English.Indifference is BlissComment
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I don't really think in languages. I think in cubes and then I translate as appropriate.
Anyway, treating the OP with more grace, I guess that English sometimes intrudes on my thinking. I usually try to translate on the fly and the result may sound weird or just awful in Swedish. So then sometimes I have to think for a second or two before I get a concept right as I intended.
Though most of the time when I speak - or type like now - in English I tend to think on the fly so I don't have time to reflect how it sounds in any language. The words just come to me and if it sounds like **** I'm so solly.Comment
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Fixed.Originally posted by Kitschum View Post
With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.
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Come now, no sour grapes here, my brother and neighbor. You don't really speak Danish. Nobody does.
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Norwegian humor doesn't count as evidence since it's common knowledge that norwegians doesn't have a sense of humor.
With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.
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I knew that story of those Swedes bringing a car door to the desert just so that they could roll the window down when it got hot wasn't true!Comment
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