Can you think with out having language?
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Yeah - imagine you had one chocolate to your right and three to your left you can think about which way you'll go and probably choose to go to the left, and for that you don't need the word for 'chocolate' nor the words for 'one' and 'three' and yet you've thought and made a decision. You would only need language if you needed to explain your choice to someone.\n\nIn fact maybe most of our basic thoughts are language-less.
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No, but you could try the following link as you can learn loads of languages with them. \n\nhttp://www.transparent.com/languagepages/languages.htm
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Not unless you learn to speak and write English properly.\n\nDo you realize how stupid you look using whatever that pseudo language is that you are trying to write/speak.\n\nJMHO!!!
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Only humans are really capable of conveying ideas through language. If there were no language, humans would probably develop a way to communicate using signs. If there were no language to begin with, we would just communicate like other animals: wolves by howling, whales by emmitting ultra-high frequency waves, or like birds by "singing" and chirping.
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"Without even knowing a word". Reread what you said and really ask yourself, do you honestly assume that deaf people do not know the written language?   Do you really think they stay at home throughout their entire childhood years not learning how to read, write, learn math, science, history, and so on like you do too? Do you think that they can learn all those things without reading the words in the textbooks? Regardless of the fact that some deaf people sign only in ASL, we all still have to learn English anyways in order to read and write and get an education. The real truth is that deaf people are BILINGUAL. Many learn both ASL and English. (Some only learn English and never ASL if they grew up in the oral method which is myself.) \n\nThe mind is not only limited to sign language. It can communicate in the written language as well. The mind does not need the vocal cords in order to think thoughts in words like a spoken language. It varies among deaf people. One would probably like signing to themselves when they think and talk to themselves. I've seen it occur. I am sure that for some, they sign to themselves in their minds or use a mixture of both words and signs. Some may mostly use words in an an expression of "Deaf English" which is not as perfect as English based on the sounds that we do not hear.\n\nI'll give you an example, I'm sure one who only signs strictly in ASL mainly would probably think "me store" or "me need store" if they're thinking about going to the store because that is how you say it in ASL. You would think "I need to go to the store". I always think in English like you do because that is my main mode of communication and expression. Even though I may be fluent in ASL, but I do not think in sign.\n\nI do not learn new words auditorally like you do. I learn them by reading it first and then learning how to pronounce it. Either someone would tell me how to pronounce it or I would look it up in the dictionary and it would describe the pronunciation. However, if I have no idea how it is properly pronounced, I just do my best to guess it. I'm pretty good at guessing the pronunciations because I love reading and have been speaking all my life. I've always been very good at English than the average person. So my mind would speak the words that it guesses what it would sound like.
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It depends on where you are from.  If you are from a Spanish speaking nation, no. You will be catered to for not being able to learn the language. But if you are from a country that speaks any other language other than Spanish, you are fully expected to be smart enough to know English.
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Ichi THAT is BRILLIANT......I know that in the tangential thinking that often bests me 'thinkos are the weakest links, perhaps the 'savants' of my mind and truly the innocents. Perhaps they are what saves my butt altogether.\nAbsolutely Brill!!!! I am going to ask if I may have permission to use this in my writing for in my speaking & writing i have for the first time just spoken it aloud...thank for the new concept on somethng I have been doing, another thing to obssess on, fair play to you mate, brain food doesnt often ome through the screen like this. and it just did.\nNow does this include the frontal and temporal lobes? Will Kirlean Photograhy show this in action? Or is it a different part of the brain where the lost socks of our lives go to?\nTHIS is a cool quesion. I now possess a new word..and it is awesome..."THINKOS"..now THAT is HOT!!!
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Yes.\n\nAs a matter of fact, there is a condition where people are born with the inability to learn words or symbology. However, their concepts are intact. For example, such a person will never, ever, no matter how many times you tell them, associate the word "scissors" with the things that cut, but if they want to cut a piece of paper, they will go straight to the drawer, get out the scissors, and use them to cut the paper. They have full understanding of what scissors are, but merely lack the ability to attach a word to it.\n\nOf course, such a person wouldn't be using a dictionary. But, you can conceptualize a person who has normal language abilities, but whose family always said, "if you don't know a word, look it up in that big blue book under the coffee table," and just never heard the word "dictionary." Or they may have always called it a "lexicon." \n\nHave you ever looked up the word "lexicon?" How about synonyms for "thesaurus?"
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actually it is very possible. many parts of the brain are yet to be discovered. did you know that the way a single person thinks of an out come can directly affect the object or thing that he or she is thinking of. there has been many studies and all have come to our suprise as true the mind can extend out. its your subconsiousnes. the inner mind
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I won't say it's impossible BUT, there are thousands of languages & dialects which would mean that while you may be intellectualy up to the task, there isn't enough time in one's normal lifetime.\n\nGood Luck!
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i think if you can involve yourself in that language environment ,do it
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language? example of what you want to do?
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There is an excellent book in Barnes and Noble\non The English Language. It refers not only to language but how thinking starts. My answer is "yes". Thinking is cultivated through relationships whether they are vocal or non-vocal (reading).\nOnce beliefs are established, changing a thinking style is almost impossible, unless the person reaches a place of desperation because they realize their thinking has ruined their life. Some people then go to God, some to therapists, some to friends.
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I suggest learning english first.  Studies show that you think in the language you speak.  And obviously your language is degraded.  Try an upgrade.
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Not everyone is able to think in the abstract! Studies of left and right brain dominance\nshow some understand concepts, (left). Some people understand better when we "draw" a picture for them, (right)!
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At times it does seem as if some cannot use the English language to express a cognitive thought, and for some that may be true because for them English is a foreign language.  That’s understandable.\n\nAnother group are individuals who seem to be quite young and have not yet master language skills and that too is understandable.\n\nThe remain do this either because they never learned how to develop a thought and convert that into the symbols of language or, they are writing that way to create what they believe to be a cool image or, they are doing it because they mistakenly believe that is how you are suppose to communicate over the internet or, and some do it because they don’t care.  \n\nHow many, I don’t know, maybe 15% in the categories I typically access.  But it does seem to be decreasing since I joined this Yahoo Question and Answer forum.
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This is a test to see how many people can figure out what I am saying. A lot of people are really hung up on proper spelling. But the human mind can figure it out, as in the example I'm giving you now. \nIt is said that, as long as you have the first and last letter in the proper place that your mind will be able to figure it out.\nWhat do you think??