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What language are your thoughts in?
| English, unfortunately
| Swedish is my first language but with how much English I speak and think it's more closer to English being like my first language.
| Binary
| My main language
| Mostly in English, sometimes in Japanese.
| Ccccccccyka... is my only thought. Maybe blyat too.
| Czech, broken english and weeb phases from Anime, memes.. and this all is A e s t h e t i c s AF
| My native language is German but I think a lot in English, I started doing that to improve my English and now it just stuck because I use it so often.
| Russian, nothing else
| English
which really doesn't help, it feels like i'm a foreigner in my place of birth, makes it difficult to express myself which can be a harsh thing like for example psychological therapy
| Я предпочитаю обдумовать смыслы {математические, филосовские} по-русский. Japanese expletives are par none, make good thematic paragraphal punctuation. But I think mostly in direct math, filled by interesting images, sometimes words. キレイな
| i.e. I translate to english from private thoughtpatterns
| A combination of Russian, English, and Japanese.
| Another one Russian language. Soon? this board will change from dangeru. US to dangeru. Ru
| imagine dange.ru, gotta be dange af
| Mostly english, but occasionally bits of chinese
| >>720228 I can see that Russian isn't your native, let me correct you: "я предпочитаю обдумывать математические и философские мысли по-русски" not sure what you meant by смыслы, but I can suggest you were translating "philosophical meanings" directly, but it has different structure in Russian. We use the term "философские мысли" which means philosophical thoughts.
| Usually in Russian (native language, kinda) or English. I pretty much only use Russian IRL, and you know how that goes in quarantine, so the priority's been shifting over to the latter.
Oh, and also there's the occasional めんどくさい or some other short expression for the current mood/situation in Japanese, but I'm not a weeb, I swear.
| R'lyehian
| Unconsiously portuguese. Mu thoughts are in Brazil.
| I think he died in Brazil...
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| Both my native and English. Depends on which one I'm using at the moment.
| Broken mix of my native plus english and japanese
| English but encrypted.
I don't have an inner voice anymore because my brain uses the encryption. As a kid I decided that if the government figured out how to scan brains... Well I was gonna beat them at their game!
My encryption method is a simple compression algorithm, but it uses related connections to transfer data. My MRI is weird, and I had a few grand mal seizures while forcing myself to switch to the new way of thinking, but now I can literally remember everything.
| >>720375
because it's not the language of the country i'm in. it feels very lonely, plus i don't like US imperialism.
| >>720375
I'm the g/u/rl you're replying to, but >>721013 nails it.
English is just a lot easier to express my thoughts in, but it makes me feel uncomfortable how easily it can kick my native language(s) out of my brain.
| >>721126
Why do you want it to be your native language though? I have the same thing as you, but I don't mind it. What part of it is it that makes you uncomfortable?
| >>721178
Dang g/u/rl, are you me?
>>721173
Because there are ideas that can be conveyed in my native languages, that would be very difficult to do in English. And losing that will be like losing the idea too, you know? It's like... like being more and more detached from my family and my people's past.
And like, maybe if I lose them, they're never *my* people or my culture to begin with, but still, it makes me feel kind of sad.
| >>721185
Aw. That's kinda cute.
You're just overthinking though. The benefit of being multilingual is that you can express things that one language can't. You won't lose your native language. That's what makes it, like, fun in a way. Because English can express things that your native language can and you probably use English a lot, which is why that's what your thoughts are mainly in. But when you feel the need to express the things that only your native language can, you will.
| >>721187
Bold of you to assume I won't lose my native language at all. I already have difficulty trying to get into local literature. I just don't click with anything they write here.
I'm a translator by profession, so I won't lose it entirely, but I'm increasingly getting the feeling that when I do use my native language, I do it by tunneling through English first.
| >>721418
Bold of you to assume that isn't the case for me as well. I stopped reading literature that's in my native language as soon as I had read one book in English. That was, like, 5 years ago or so, and I still haven't lost it.
I also do the tunneling through English thing that you describe, and, well, I haven't lost it.
Your native language is something you've been thought since birth. That's not something that just goes away. It just isn't.
| >>721431
I mean... losing a language doesn't always mean being unable to use it. Not connecting with it, having to tunnel through a different language to get to it, it's bad enough. Like even when I use it, I feel like a foreigner, you know? I don't feel like I belong with it.
My family have three native languages and I only know one and the connection is already strenuous. I know I should put more effort reconnecting, but it still feels awkward and forced.
| >>721440
Again, you're overthinking it. You're making a problem out of literally nothing. But, you do you man. It's your choice.
| >>721460
Man. I think you mean well, but the way you keep saying I'm "overthinking" it really do feel like you're just ignoring my feelings entirely. It might be "literally nothing" for you, but it is a big deal to me. I'm telling you what I feel, it's not a "choice".
But truce, g/u/rl. We can stop the discussion here.
| >>721476
I'm not trying to undermine how you feel, I'm sorry if it comes off that way. I've just, felt very strongly about stuff that's similar to that before and I've had a similar thought process about it etc. It's always turned out to be something that I've just been overthinking, as in I've been anxious about it or felt like it's something that can or will happen, but it has always turned out to not be the case.
Changing how I think about it is how I stopped worrying.
| It's like, how do I explain it though?
Having those feelings isn't a choice, and thinking that way isn't a choice. But trying to look at it differently and change how you view the situation instead of viewing it as objective truth is a choice. Choosing to look at things differently and be open to the fact that the way I feel about it might be irrational is how I've overcome a lot of anxious thoughts/situations like that.
I'm just trying to help, but I'm not good at it.
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| Got this idea from replying to the other language thread.
Example: my native language is Norwegian, but my thoughts are mostly in English because of how much I use, hear and read the language and the fact that it's more expressive than Norwegian.
So to all the multilingual g/u/rls here: what language(s) are your thoughts in?