mentalese essay blather

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        06:18 PM, June 27, 2007
      
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        Pinker:  ten arguments (in Language Institint) against English as the lingua franca of 
        mentalese.
      
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        1) animals think.  etc.  Pinker is friendly to the role of mental images.
      
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        this is 
      
      
        <b>blather.newdream.net/m/mentalese.html </b>
      
      
        
      
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        Best description of mentalese that I could find.
      
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        The symbols of the mind are NOT English words.
      
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        Sentences are designed for VOCAL communication btwn impatient, intelligent social beings.
      
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        They achieve brevity by leaving out any info that the listener can mentally fil in from 
        context.
      
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        In contrast the LOT (language of thought) in which KNOWLEDGE is couched can leave nothing 
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        imagination because it IS the IMAGINATION.
      
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        Another problem is AMBIGUOUS SENTENCES.
      
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        When the serial killer Ted Bundy wins a stay of execution and the headline reads
      
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        "Bundy Beats Date with Chair:  we do a double take because our minds assigns TWO
      
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        MEANINGS to the string of words.
      
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        If ONE STRING of words in English can correspond to Two meanings in the minds then 
        meanings in the mind CANNOT be
      
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        strings of English.
      
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        Finally sentences in English are cluttered with articles, prepositons, gender suffices and 
        other grammatical boilet plate.
      
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        They are need to get info from one head to another, a slow channel.
      
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        Mentalese is the language of the future, someday we will transcend the tongue and ear.
      
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        When thoughts can be transfered without the hinderance of language.
      
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        Words, musci, images, and other forms of info of every sort are converted to mentalese 
        before a person actually understands it.
      
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        It is continually fitted into many contexts.
      
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