On Sun, May 2, 2010 at 3:23 PM, Carrol Cox <[email protected]> wrote: Well, when you write this post, in the language of semantics yfour are > encoding your thought. After all, your thoughts don't have a physical > shape in a shade different from their background. So you 'translate' > them into English >
I don't buy this part. While I've forgotten most of the semantic verbiage I learned in my cultural studies classes, it's apparent to me that most of my thoughts arise from the English language and could have no existence independent of it (except, perhaps, if I were equally fluent in some other language). The notion that I "translate" my thoughts about the purpose of life, the structure of the universe, etc. into English is absurd - the thoughts themselves ARE English, because that is the language through which I think abstractly. -- "Hige sceal þe heardra, heorte þe cenre, mod sceal þe mare, þe ure mægen lytlað."
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