Stolen from linguaphiles

[conuly]

http://www.straightdope.com/columns/031226.html

I'm not sure which is worse, the assumption that people can't think in sign language, or the one that nobody, ever, can think without having language. I'm edging towards the first, though, since it's just blatant stupidity.

Comments

[marveen.livejournal.com]

Very interesting essays; thanks for the links.

It's fascinating to discover others with the same thought patterns and abilities. (I have the same habit of clearly visualizing the end result, which has the same side effect of producing lots of arguements with people who "don't believe it will work that way.")

To further clarify my above statement... After further reading and some more thought, the reason I said that I thought in text rather than words is just that--I think of a word or concept and remember reading it, and the image that comes to mind includes the font used.

[conuly]

1. No problem.

2. I do that too sometimes. I see the words when I hear them. So if you're talking to me, aloud, I'll see the print. But when I'm just thinking, it's not visual at all, though it is, oddly, in the third person.