About thinking in a different language
I am not always sure that people think in a language. For me, there's the suspicion that people reason in a language (or talk to themselves in one). How is thought different from imagination or dreaming? Dreams for me, are more about images (sometimes in B&W and others times in 'Scope, Technicolor, and stereophonic sound). Is thought capable without language? Are some thoughts inexpressible in a language or one's language. I do not (or cannot) deny that language and thought (ideas) are somehow involved with one another.
As for the meanings (or maybe the connotations) of words being variable amongst different speakers (and at different times), I am also interested how the context of a word oftentimes determines or narrows its meaning. Words in isolation tend towards a pale ambiguity or bleached polysemy.
Just musing.
