I think about this all the time. What about dogs too? Whenever they're "talking" in movies they use language, but how can dogs know all of our language? My dog barely recognizes her name...

by Anonymous 13 years ago

yeah or like if you were on an island by yourself(for some odd reason) and you never learned to speak. You would still have thoughts but they wouldn't be in words...which is really hard to comprehend.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

deaf people HOW DO THEY THINK edit: my captcha was "all singing" uh, okay.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Without learning some sort of language (not necessarily spoken/written, but one or the other probably) then you don't develop an inner voice, and end up relying mostly on instinct to live. Had to read an essay on this in English class and relate it to Frankestein XD

by Anonymous 13 years ago

its sort of like if you're in a totally random country and you don't know the language,you technically can't have it as an inner voice so you just use instinct kinda sort of right?

by Anonymous 13 years ago

its sort of like if you're in a totally random country and you don't know the language,you technically can't have it as an inner voice so you just use instinct kinda sort of right?

by Anonymous 13 years ago

You'd probably just think in pictures and feelings.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Before learning language, we see ourselves and our environment as a random, fragmented, formless mass. We just don't differentiate ourselves from our environment. Then we begin to form a sense of self, still before language, and live in a world of images. Once we learn language, we lose intimate union with our world and most importantly, our mother. Sorry, I just read about psychoanalysis in English today and it was fresh in my mind.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Even after we learn all the words 99% of the time we're not using words in our thought process anyway.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

ahh thats so confusing... it's hard to grasp!

by Anonymous 13 years ago