At 12:20 AM 8/15/2002 -0500, Kat wrote: >Language is one of the ways in which we think. Another that comes to mind is >spatial - I make chainmaille and work leather for a living; I spend quite a >bit of my time thinking spatially rather than lingually, and am rather aware >of the process of translation from spatial to lingual thought that occurs in >my mind when I'm talking about maille to another mailler. I'm not certain what it means to think spatially. I know that when I am involved in any sort of craft I tend to think in terms of that craft. That is, a carpenter does not think, "measure, mark, measure again, select nail, align, drive nail." Rather, he is thinking in the symbols associated with that skill. When I drum, I don't think, "Hit the bass, hit the snare, keep the ride going..." I am thinking in drum terms, which don't directly translate into language. Yet, the more I learn, the more skill I develop in mentally working with those symbols. As I "speak the language" better, I drum better.