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What language do you think in, if you speak more than one?

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If you are bilingual and you are fluent in whatever languages you speak e.g English Somali..What language do think in?
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arabic. first i make sentences in arabic then translate in my head somali or english. always comes wrong tho.
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english

my dreams are multilingual though, true story
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English sadly
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seemeyer wrote:English sadly
me too and my somali is now off the hook I'm fluent by any means...but can't get rid of this freaking english in my head and its been bothering me like crazy.
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Hargaysa1982 wrote:
seemeyer wrote:English sadly
me too and my somali is now off the hook I'm fluent by any means...but can't get rid of this freaking english in my head and its been bothering me like crazy.
Same here,but like keyblade says,my dreams are bilingual,ain't that strange
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Re: What language do you think in, if you speak more than on

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It's a long known fact of human psychology that people don't think in language. Thought is not linguistically bound. Language is handy only to convey to others what a man thinks.

The language I use chiefly is Xabashi. My wife is an Ethiopian Prisoner of War.
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I'm more interested in which tense people think in.

If I'm not writing, I usually think in the second person. Or a third person bystander.
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WiglessBidaar wrote:It's a long known fact of human psychology that people don't think in language. Thought is not linguistically bound. Language is handy only to convey to others what a man thinks.
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So how does one construct a plan of action in ones head,semaphore miyaa :lol:
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Alphanumeric wrote:I'm more interested in which tense people think in.

If I'm not writing, I usually think in the second person. Or a third person bystander.
oh my God! i thought im crazy or alone in this. i even dream as a 3rd person. for example i think as : waryaa rauf, wahas iska daa! rauf wa nin walam etc.
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hyperactive wrote:
Alphanumeric wrote:I'm more interested in which tense people think in.

If I'm not writing, I usually think in the second person. Or a third person bystander.
oh my God! i thought im crazy or alone in this. i even dream as a 3rd person. for example i think as : waryaa rauf, wahas iska daa! rauf wa nin walam etc.

kkkk crackheads :lol:
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hyperactive wrote:
Alphanumeric wrote:I'm more interested in which tense people think in.

If I'm not writing, I usually think in the second person. Or a third person bystander.
oh my God! i thought im crazy or alone in this. i even dream as a 3rd person. for example i think as : waryaa rauf, wahas iska daa! rauf wa nin walam etc.
When I'm thinking to myself, it's usually "you should do this" "you should go there". If I need to make a decision between multiple matters, it's as if I'm the subject of a conversation between two people, who don't refer to me as "he" or by name, but as "you". It's rather strange and difficult to explain.

My dreams switch between the first and third person, depending on whether or not I'm speaking directly to someone or performing an action, respectively. But I can't think in my dream. My thoughts are actions.
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seemeyer wrote:
WiglessBidaar wrote:It's a long known fact of human psychology that people don't think in language. Thought is not linguistically bound. Language is handy only to convey to others what a man thinks.
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So how does one construct a plan of action in ones head,semaphore miyaa :lol:
The same way that one's vertical manhood stands to attention when a big titted lovely strides by. Language is a second order matter. Animals construct elaborate plans without speech. The deaf likewise.

Language is there only to inform your wife that you want to mount her like a bison. Not to yourself. Thinking and feeling are distinct.
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i know, it's hard to explain. i thought i was strange.
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Re: What language do you think in, if you speak more than on

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Alphanumeric wrote:
hyperactive wrote:
Alphanumeric wrote:I'm more interested in which tense people think in.

If I'm not writing, I usually think in the second person. Or a third person bystander.
oh my God! i thought im crazy or alone in this. i even dream as a 3rd person. for example i think as : waryaa rauf, wahas iska daa! rauf wa nin walam etc.
When I'm thinking to myself, it's usually "you should do this" "you should go there". If I need to make a decision between multiple matters, it's as if I'm the subject of a conversation between two people, who don't refer to me as "he" or by name, but as "you". It's rather strange and difficult to explain.

My dreams switch between the first and third person, depending on whether or not I'm speaking directly to someone or performing an action, respectively. But I can't think in my dream. My thoughts are actions.
*Keeps taking some notes* In the future when the Thought-Police ask about the schizophrenics in Snet I know who they are. :lol: :lol:
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