Bilingual people: What language do you *think* in??

[Troll_Whisperer]

hatmoza said:

Troll whisperer.

I'm sure you're familiar with the scientific method. The steps involve a high level of cognitive skills that requires a lot of wording. Hypothesis, testings, results ... all things that you would need to formulate in words to share the results. All that visual theories, abstract thoughts need to be proven and broken down into words eventually.

While I respect those who are high visual learners, I believe it's in everyone's interest to formulate and improve  the way they think. It's the same reason graphs and figures are provided in various levels of school for people who are not that strong in that area of thinking.

You are a very clever poster, and I enjoy your ideas and opinions very much. I can only imagine how smart(er) you would be if you can hone your thinking abilities by ... well thinking out of the box. Just like I strive to improve on visual learning.

I don't need to formulate words for that, I would just search for the answer in my mind. You're implying deaf-mute people (who were born that way) can't formulate, and we both know that's not true. Reasoning can be done otherwise.

Actually, a spoken language is a way to convey ideas, but it doesn't expand the number of possibilities, it actually limits them because they are confined in a spoken language. That's why some concepts are hard to describe and why a perfect translation between languages is impossible, something's gonna get lost. There's always that something that just can't be described because spoken/written language is limiting our brain.

Don't know, for me a concept is as good as 1,000 words, I just can't describe it any other way :-/