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Re:People who have unusual, or non-existent, inner voices by haxiomic on Tuesday November 02, 2021 @05:54PM (#29087936)
> Some of my most interesting thoughts I don’t have the words for at all.

That's a really interesting idea, I wonder if leaning so heavily on language can limit our available thought-space. Certainly a Sapir–Whorf tie-in there!

I find when I over-do it with coding I can't stop thinking about everything in terms of coding related concepts and it drives me nuts because I can tell it's gumming up my clarity of understanding

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Re:People who have unusual, or non-existent, inner voices by mcphage on Tuesday November 02, 2021 @10:07PM (#29090295)
> I wonder if leaning so heavily on language can limit our available thought-space.

Where would new words come from, then?

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