Wednesday, January 04, 2006

Mentalese

In the wonderful book, The Language Instinct, Steven Pinker makes an argument that our thoughts are not represented as words inside our head. As evidence, he states:
We have all had the experience of uttering or writing a sentence, then stopping and realizing that it wasn't exactly what we meant to say.

This is how I feel each time I post. Or, to paraphrase Moshe Rabbeinu - I've got uncircumcized lips!

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