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I can think in dialog, or I can think in 'no-words' which is language-less thought. I tend to program while thinking in 'no-words' or when I'm speaking my non-n
by withinboredom 3y ago
I can think in dialog, or I can think in 'no-words' which is language-less thought. I tend to program while thinking in 'no-words' or when I'm speaking my non-native language (English). When I think in 'no-words,' I sometimes find ideas that cannot be translated and can get stuck. A pretty common one is the idea of 'this-here' and 'this-there' when comparing two things that are currently unlabeled. I have to remember to back up and label the things with language, then compare them.
Another common one is when trying to explain complex interactions that are quite simple in 'no-words' and I have to start diagramming things, then explain the diagram in language.
- hoseja 3y agoI think this may be common with us multilingual shaperotators.
- shannifin 3y agoThis happens to me a lot when writing fiction; I can see the action or feel the emotion I want, but finding the words to describe can sometimes be very difficult. (Also depends on what time it is, I'm particularly bad at it in the morning.) Related is when you forget a word. You've got the specific meaning in your mind, and you know there exists a word for it, and it's in your brain somewhere, but you just can't get the appropriate neurons to fire to give it to your conscious mind. (And then it might randomly appear to your during some other random task.)
- drdeca 3y agoWhile to some degree I think I’ve had somewhat similar experiences, at other times (when I was a teen) when I’ve specifically tried to think-without-words, I thought I had, and then shortly afterwards either realized or thought I had realized, that I had been thinking with words, and had just been hiding the words from myself?