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February 17, 2007
[Cognition] [Language] [Autistic]
A third language
Does my brain store information in neither English nor Russian?

When I browse the Internet, my browser has five, or six, or seven, or so windows opened, because I am compulsive-obsessive with following every link that looks promising. The result of my searching habits is that later I often forget where I read this piece that I thought wasn't too interesting, but now I think it really is, so where can I find it...

Once something more interesting happened. When I am searching for any thing Russian, I search in both English and Russian parts of the Internet, because good info can wait for you in any of the two places. Once I oscillated between five or six or seven pages in both languages until I absorbed enough information. Later I tried to find an article that I decided was interesting, and for that I needed to know the language. I couldn't recall whether it was written in English or Russian. This made me nervous, and I tried really hard. Tried to recall some particular phrase, or at least a word, a term, a something. So I would figure what language it was in. I couldn't recall anything. For some reasons it really upset me.

Now I wonder, how is it possible to remember what the article was about, but not in what language it was written? Does my brain store the information in neither English nor Russian, but some sort of an inner language? There is no evidence for it, besides this small incident. Whenever I catch myself thinking, it's either one language, or another, or, more often, a mixture of the two. Perhaps my inner storage language is closer to Joel Spolski's blurred vision.



   
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