[wooooords] Indexing, speaking, writing
Nov. 22nd, 2004 05:19 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
wispfoxSo, as previously determined, things I have taken the time to process and sort and stuff are indexed in my head with words. This does include people, even though that's not how I recognize them.
It perioically weirds me out that I can have a word in my head, even use it to find the information I want, but cannot necessarily _communicate_ that word, or even find a similar word (the latter is easier, but sometimes I can get just completely stuck!).
Trying to find a word in writing is easier than when speaking, though.
On the way home, however, I was reminded that while speaking and writing are language specific, they are not the _same_ symbol set. I probably have to translate between them, at some level, at least.
So perhaps it's not quite so strange that I can sometimes find a word easier in writing than in speaking (since speaking takes a _lot_ more processing power for me than writing, similarly to listening vs reading).
And, taking that symbols set stuff further, perhaps the verbal stuff that I have in my head for indexing purposes and for other processed stuff in my head is yet _another_ symbol set. Thereby explaining why I can access things and still not necessarily be able to communicate that word.
No idea if this is even remotely correct, but it makes me less annoyed by my frequent difficulty with finding words.
It perioically weirds me out that I can have a word in my head, even use it to find the information I want, but cannot necessarily _communicate_ that word, or even find a similar word (the latter is easier, but sometimes I can get just completely stuck!).
Trying to find a word in writing is easier than when speaking, though.
On the way home, however, I was reminded that while speaking and writing are language specific, they are not the _same_ symbol set. I probably have to translate between them, at some level, at least.
So perhaps it's not quite so strange that I can sometimes find a word easier in writing than in speaking (since speaking takes a _lot_ more processing power for me than writing, similarly to listening vs reading).
And, taking that symbols set stuff further, perhaps the verbal stuff that I have in my head for indexing purposes and for other processed stuff in my head is yet _another_ symbol set. Thereby explaining why I can access things and still not necessarily be able to communicate that word.
No idea if this is even remotely correct, but it makes me less annoyed by my frequent difficulty with finding words.
