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A thread on Reddit made me realise that people who are monolingual don't know how being bilingual affects your inner monologue. The answer? It switches back and forth. Makes me a bit skeptical of the Saphir-Worf hypothesis to be frank, because I can think about something and instantly speak of it in either language. Also, I often have an abstract idea in my head before I can remember the word for it. That's symbolic thinking without language, isn't it?

@thor Maybe it's more of a memetic thing: that languages may be capable of spreading certain ideas more quickly than others depending on specialized vocabulary.
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@infernalturtle Maybe it is, but then it is no longer the Saphir-Worf hypothesis.

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@thor I think languages really do shape our thoughts, but not exactly literally. Because when one hears what others say, one judges the content of the thing said also by the way it was said. And languages themselves by their word shapes and everything can influence this greatly.
Basically, what I'm saying is that languages shape perceptions and, as a result, our thoughts.