Thursday, May 25, 2006

mind matters--language






We all have thoughts and we all think in a language, we need words to think, because thinking is like ur mind speaking to you or you speaking to ur mind....thus you normally use the language you speak to think.

Now if we need a language to think, how it would have been before humans invented language....How would Our ancestors have got the idea of language without thinking(If thinking was possible only through a medium of language)....

Now how would my thinking be when I used one language to speak and another language to think and write....I firmly believe that there would be difference between using two languages to think and one to think....
Because thinking needs facts or data about anything that we are thinking and at that moment, and we get those data from what we have learnt since childhood by listening to others or reading books.............

now i use one language(my mother tongue) at home and with friends from my childhood but i use another language(English) at school with teachers and while studying............
i can feel the difference...........
i think in different languages or use both languages at a time while thinking about different things........say if i have to think about what movie i go tomorrow
or what i in the afternoon(i.e think about day today activities) i use my mother tongue
........but if i'm thinking about what i studies in my book ,some chapter then i use english......
what will be its effect on my thinking............