Walter wrote
As somebody once put it very clearly (and in English), English is the ideal language since in it the order of the words in a sentence is isomorphic withthe order in which they are thought.
As Wittgenstein once put it [Investigations §336], 'A French politician once wrote that it was a peculiarity of the French language that in it words occur in the order in which one thinks them.'
I seem to remember that Occam (?) believed there was a mental language out of which thoughts had to be translated before they could be expressed in a natural language such as Latin.
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