At 1:37 PM -0400 8/15/02, Casey Rousseau wrote: > > >David Dyer-Bennet wrote: >> I'm a counterexample. To me "non-verbal thought" is an oxymoron. >> Writing badly is to me a clear sign of thinking unclearly. And so >> forth. (Professional software developer since I was 15 years old, in >> 1969). >> >> I also do reasonably well taking things apart and putting them >> together, for that matter. I think it's why I can often give *useful >> instructions* about this stuff to other people. > >I'd say this is an indication that you have both strong verbal thinking >ability and strong spatial/visual thinking ability along with a facility >that has been described to me as dependent on the physical structure of the >corpus callosum to translate the latter using the former in order to >communicate it to another person. Heh. His wife once described him as bilingual; he speaks both English and computer programming. -- Lydy Nickerson lydy at demesne.com lydy at lydy.com Dulciculi Aliquorum