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> Some of my most interesting thoughts I don’t have the words for at all.

That's a really interesting idea, I wonder if leaning so heavily on language can limit our available thought-space. Certainly a Sapir–Whorf tie-in there!

I find when I over-do it with coding I can't stop thinking about everything in terms of coding related concepts and it drives me nuts because I can tell it's gumming up my clarity of understanding



> I wonder if leaning so heavily on language can limit our available thought-space.

Where would new words come from, then?




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