Posted: May 27, 2015 11:22 pm
Zwaarddijk wrote:It's interesting how popular the idea that one can think without language/words is here - not that I mind, since I generally agree with the notion that thought without language is quite possible.
However, judging from various other corners of the internet, it seems neither to be popular among people in general, nor all that popular among linguists. As for people in general, there's even those who believe silly things like deaf people cannot think, because they "don't have language". . . linguists seem to be at least slightly more informed on this topic, most of the time.
Well there was that famous case of the Mexican orphanage for and the death kids developing language independently. Just because one never speaks or even is spoken too doesn't mean they don't have language. But a way of communicating to oneself without external input or output is stretching the definition I admit.