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They have no language, they only have understanding.

Many times I figured out/thought something and only then I struggled to put it in words (Polish or English). It means that thought comes before the language.

But I agree that it is common to speak first and think after :)

Our natural language, whatever flavor, consists of objects with relations. Kind of like C++ or VB. The task before us is to discover and agree what the objects represented by the sound symbols actually might be. That's not easy. Then we need to establish or discover relations between the objects. Thus, someone says "socialist" and someone else says "liberal" and someone says they are the same while someone else says they are completely different yet related. Then we find a level of agreement on the FR board and go out into the world where we discover no one out there is paying attention because they are getting ready for the weekend and aren't thinking in words at all.