An assessment of the Unicode standard  Gabriel Genellina gagsl-
py2 at Tue Sep 22 01:38:46 CEST 2009  En Sun, 20 Sep 2009
03:33:47 -0300, Greg Ewing   <greg.ewing at> escribió: > Hendrik
van Rooyen wrote: > In any case, it doesn't affect my point,
which was that > I was thinking about something that I didn't
have a word, > or even a convenient phrase for. >> That is
probably true, but on the other hand, it is not totally rubbish
>> either, as it is hard to think of stuff you have never heard
of,   >> whether you have an undefined word for it or not. > I
quite agree that there is *some* interaction between > the
language we use and the way we think, but it's a > two-way
process. As a species, we're quite capable of > thinking about
new things and inventing words to express > them when the need
arises. > It's possible that some individuals do this more >
frequently than others, e.g. mathematicians and other > people
who are in the habit of exploring new ideas may > be less
influenced by the constraints of lang