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To: exDemMom

English is the current global language, but have we become more powerful because of it? And in what way do you define power?


A person who speaks English as a first language, can learn to speak Japanese, but will never have the thought patterns of someone who speaks Japanese as a first language and visa versa.

IOW, language contains a thought pattern which Is not naturally duplicated when learning another language. The power that is implicated comes from common thought patterns, which can not be achieved after Babel.


8 posted on 12/16/2019 3:12:55 AM PST by KittenClaws ("There is no 1502 Johnson" ~ Joan Hamilton)
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To: KittenClaws

“...language contains a thought pattern...”

Cultures, of course, also do, and the goal of mass immigration into Western countries is to disrupt, for all time, those thought patterns.


10 posted on 12/16/2019 3:19:16 AM PST by odawg
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To: KittenClaws
The power that is implicated comes from common thought patterns, which can not be achieved after Babel.

That's what makes Reverse Speech so intriguing, often the reverse is in a foreign language unknown to the speaker.

16 posted on 12/16/2019 3:37:19 AM PST by rawcatslyentist (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yfuAJcWl6DE Kill a Commie for Mommie)
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To: KittenClaws

Ah, an explanation for the inscrutable Oriental mind.

(And why they drive the way they do...)


39 posted on 12/16/2019 5:37:48 AM PST by super7man (Madam Defarge, knitting, knitting, always knitting)
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To: KittenClaws

Can you provide proof of that?


45 posted on 12/16/2019 6:26:30 AM PST by GingisK
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