Re: does conlanging change your sense of reality?

Everyone has 'muscle memory'. Notice that little children have to perform a
'dance' when relating to you about something they observed. They have to put
their bodies into the positions they were in to recall that memory.
We all have a major sense that we use to store and recall memories. Visual,
aural, olfactory, gustation, tactile and kinesthetic. But everyone has
kinesthetic memory and that is why they wave their hands, shake their heads,
shuffle their feet etc. a.n..
The old, non-pc, joke about how to gag an Italian - tie his hands.
Dio lo benedice sempre, tutte le maniere,
Paul

On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 2:51 AM, Njenfalgar <njenfalgar@...> wrote:

> " ...
> Coming back to non-verbal thinking, I recently found some article about
> research done in the direction of gesturing. They asked people to describe
> the way to somewhere, and the subjects did so very well. Then, they were
> told to hold a chair, and give directions again. They suddenly had a much
> harder time doing so. The conclusion was that people use their hands to
> orient themselves in space, and that's why people make gestures even on the
> telephone -- not to better convey information, but to better order their
> own
> thoughts. It's like non-verbal thoughts are still conscious, just not in
> your head."
>
> Greets
> David
>
>
> --
> Migh foghgl adzankh edung, vonglerung.
>