Vehicles of Thought

Words are the vehicles of thought.  Thought is communicated in words.  The letter, morphemes, and phonetics in themselves have no particular meaning but when all these things are combined they transport thought.  Ideas themselves have no language.  They are just communicated in words.  Each word represents a thought.  (On a side note, this makes books a form of mass transit.  READ.)  Have you ever been in the situation where you knew WHAT  you wanted to say but really didn’t know HOW to say it?  I don’t mean you’re trying not to hurt your sister’s feelings because you ran over her cat but you just didn’t know HOW to say it.  To stay consistent, your bus left without you.  Different languages carry different meaning with their vehicles.  For speakers of multiple languages, I’m sure you’ve had a few pileups when trying to say what you thinking.  I was required to quote John 3:16 in Russian  by memory.  I completed my assignment and thought of a way to spice things up.  I decided I would quote John 3:16 verbally in Russian and sign John 3:16 in ASL, at the same time.  This was my most recent pileup.  The syntax of Russian and ASL are similar, but the word meanings of English and ASL are closely related.  My mind exploded.  But it was a good exploded.  It keeps my mind from the horrible disease of monolingual myopia.  Don’t be afraid to drive a foreign car.  It may just get you there faster.