In What Language Do You Think?

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    Rihana

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    Nothing like an example to explain it. : )
     
    Rihana, Sep 6, 2016
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    That's something I've come across less - ability to think so well in so many languages. I actually thought you learnt English as a result of going to an English medium school from kindergarten onward, like many of us Indians do.
     
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    Hmmm... do you ever find that the words needed for serious thinking are less used and hence feel odd?
     
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    How to get to that state? I am getting so good at life's to-do's that it is freeing up more time to think!
     
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    Aah Java... the lang that sometimes takes exception to reserved words not allowed.. one whistles and takes it in stride. : )
     
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    :) :)

    I recall a child telling me that she wants to go to the pani gir gaya park. In the era before GPS... took us a while to figure out which park has the . . . . . . . water fall. : )
     
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    I swear I read the above as "For my husband, it is ..."

    Really.. we sometimes have to think for them, don't we! : )
     
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    That's a good one you pulled on me, you cheeky Ri!

    I took a hard look at my mind language (ML) and realised that though my vocal language (VL) is English predominantly, the ML is still my native tongue. I do think in my native language and apply linguistic transformation to arrive at the ambient language. That might even explain the writer's stutter that I keep complaining of which I am working on these days. Huzzah! Such hitherto undetected latency root cause! My mind rattles with a lot of vulgar and barnyard native tongue, so, to vomit that crass out in respectable and decent English is another transformative phase in my chained act.

    Even the ^ paragraph was constructed in my native tongue and translated into English and then overlaid with idiomatic proofer (does the like-for-like English translation sound alright)
     
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    I think in both English and my Mother tongue.
     
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    Ha ha... Nope, My English was very basic until I entered my college. Perhaps after the 1st year I started to speak in English with ease. Earlier, all I knew was the alphabets and some words.
     
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