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Re: does conlanging change your sense of reality?

From:Jim Henry <jimhenry1973@...>
Date:Thursday, April 2, 2009, 22:39
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? -- Jim Henry http://www.pobox.com/~jimhenry/