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Reading EY's dath ilan glowfics, I can't help but think of how poor English is as a language to think in. I wonder if I could train myself to think without subvocalizing (presumably it would be too much work to come up with a well-optimized encoding of thoughts, all on my own, so no new language for me). No subvocalizing might let me think important thoughts more quickly and precisely.
This is an interesting question, and one that has been studied by linguists.
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I'm not sure how often I subvocalize to think thoughts. Often I have trouble putting a new idea into words just right, which means the raw idea essence came before the wordsmithing. But other times it feels like I'm synchronously subvocalizing as I brainstorm