Re: CHAT: Synesthesia and conlanging (was Re: The ConlangInstinct)

Nik Taylor wrote:
>
> I remember wondering, when I was a young child, about what it must be
> like to think in another language, or, more to the point, what it must
> be like for English to be a foreign language.  I knew that people who
> speak other langs think in those, but it seemed weird nevertheless.
>
When I was about 7 or 8, I thought long and hard about the fact that
some people spoke other languages.  I finally decided that even
if the words were different, they most have the same number of
syllables as their English counterparts.  It made perfectly good
sense to me although for the life of, I can't remember why now :)
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