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I'm not sure that English-speaking (and similar languages) people think in a background voice, but rather that we think in meaning and the meaning is echoed bac
by Qz 16y ago
I'm not sure that English-speaking (and similar languages) people think in a background voice, but rather that we think in meaning and the meaning is echoed back in the mind as English words (or whatever language). For example, there's a lot of times where we will have something that we want to communicate, and we know exactly what it means but not how to say it in words -- often associated with the phrase "something on the tip of my tongue".
Reading also can take on something of that ideographic nature of chinese -- take the word calligraphy. I don't need to read the letters and then put them in order and deduce that the word is 'calligraphy'. I see the whole shape of the word and comprehend it. Thisisalsowhyitssomuchahardertounderstandenglishwhenwedon'tputspacesbetweenwords.
- pbhjpbhj 16y ago>Thisisalsowhyitssomuchahardertounderstandenglishwhenwedon'tputspacesbetweenwords. I've got to say I scanned over that as quickly as the rest of the para and had no problem understanding it. Indeed it's hard not to see the word patterns. This sort of thing gets tricky when you remove the vowels or when there are collisions at word boundaries (expertsexchange, etc.).
- philwelch 16y agoTokenizing provdies btetre erorr corretcion in case words are misspelled. I very highly doubt that tihsprhsaesicmorephesnilbe.
- pbhjpbhj 16y ago>I very highly doubt that tihsprhsaesicmorephesnilbe. I read it first as "this phrase is _more_ comprehensible" but knew it wasn't right. Also you spelt "mispelled" incorrectly ;0)>
- philwelch 16y agoYeah, cuz it mashes up in such a way that there's a "more" there! I didn't even intend that but that's exactly the drawback.