On : Thursday, March 12, 1998 6:58 PM
MarXidad <marxidad@idirect.com> wrote:
> Most people don't realize how important language actually is and they take
>it for granted.
I wouldn't be so fast to say this. Most people do understand that language
is
a major part of our cognitive lives.
>Even when thinking to themselves, thinking in English (or whatever
language)
> seems innate, but how did people think before the onset
>of the spoken word?
There are disagreements on this, and there is no real way to test one way or
another,
but I (and others) belive that prior to the advent of language, people
didn't think.
>Even in reading and writing, we sort of convert orthography into mental
phonetics, >pronouncing words the same way we'd speak them out loud. I'd say
that language has >had as much of an impact on how we communicate with
ourselves as it has on >interpersonal communication. Knowledge is power, but
it's harnessed and attained by >means of language.
Furthermore, I feel that inter-cranial communication was developed
before intra-cranial communication, and that the latter was a result
of a short-circuit between the questioning and answering part of our
brains.
C A Cook, LF
coreycook12@email.msn.com