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Old 16th February 2008, 23:02   #34 (permalink)
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Re: How Thai interfers with learning English

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Originally Posted by Guy Mandude
So if I don't know the word for "yellow," I can't see the color yellow? This is where linguistic determinism gets sticky. I believe that thought is pre-verbal and that thought is NOT shaped by vocabulary.
There's no 'thought' involved in your example.
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