[lit-ideas] Re: Must the Word be Literate?
- From: wokshevs@xxxxxx
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx, Robert Paul <rpaul@xxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 3 Oct 2007 12:51:36 -0230
Well, I was reading an English translation of PI at the time.
Walter O.
Quoting Robert Paul <rpaul@xxxxxxxx>:
> 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
> with
> > the 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.
>
> Robert Paul
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