Ok you got me there !!Felix wrote:"The thing that I got out of growing up with 2 languages at one time (which is not unusual -- many immigrant kids do this as well) is a knowledge that THOUGHT PRECEEDS LANGUAGE and not the other way around."
Oh, I don't know, "the other way around" is fairly common, e.g., Donald Trump.....
Wittgenstein: In the beginning was the deed
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Yes, but the chatty, popularising, function of language is different from the ordering function as used by philosophers and others who try to be objective. Unfortunately both of those speech styles can be and are sometimes used to inspire fear instead of love.YIOSTHEOY wrote:Ok you got me there !!Felix wrote:"The thing that I got out of growing up with 2 languages at one time (which is not unusual -- many immigrant kids do this as well) is a knowledge that THOUGHT PRECEEDS LANGUAGE and not the other way around."
Oh, I don't know, "the other way around" is fairly common, e.g., Donald Trump.....
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Language is pretty robust - you can violate almost all rules or grammer and still get a message across. Thing of tourists speaking broken English going "Hungry me food where?" and you get he is asking where there is a restaurent, even though it isn't even a proper sentence.YIOSTHEOY wrote:Hey don't laugh -- it works !!Belinda wrote:YIOSTHEOY wrote:
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French has opposite order of noun/adjective than Germanic languages, they say "un chapeau noir", "a hat black" and not a black hat". But if you used the Germanic order, they would still understand what you meant, except cases when you add an adjective to another adjective."
For instance "un bleu froid" is "a cold blue". But if you said "un froid bleu", it would mean a sort of cold that is blue, and they would have a bit of trouble getting what you meant.
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Re: Wittgenstein: In the beginning was the deed
He rejects Mind as the microcosm of human reason and the macrocosm of Reason itself. He rejects the idea of an independent, transcendental, ground of reason.
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