Re: does conlanging change your sense of reality?

On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 12:28 PM, Daniel Bowman <danny.c.bowman@...> wrote:

> Just out of curiousity, has that happened to anyone else?
To some extent.  A fair amount of the grammar of
gzb, and many extended senses of its words, were
not consciously planned out; I noticed them in my
own usage of the language, and documented them
later.

> For me, the process of language creation is not to test a particular
> philisophical idea or alternate history.  It just comes to me, and I write
> it down.  It has a certain life of its own.  Ironically, it backs up the
> argument that we do a lot of our thinking subverbally, else otherwise how
> could ideas come to us without us "thinking" of them beforehand?
I think you mean "subconsciously" here?   It seems
intuitively probable that subconscious thought is
nonverbal (and perhaps nonvisual, nonmusical etc as well);
but how can we tell, since we have no conscious access
to it?

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Jim Henry
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