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My friend thinks in print, usually in the font of whatever she last read. In conversation, she mentally transcribes every word. Not surprisingly, she reads super fast and dislikes homophonic puns.
Wow! I wonder if you could change the nature of her thoughts by priming her with font styles with different associations...
Or could you slow her down with difficult to read fonts? Shut her up with wingdings...
I think in text too.
My inner monologue is aural, but I sometimes read just by looking at the words without imagining the way they sound. I do tend to hear words when I type them, though.
(I can also "play back" songs in my head, but often it's only the melody line...)
In particular, I have realized that trying to visualize the words as you hear them works wonderfully both for:
(a) focusing on what the other person is saying, especially if the theme is difficult to grasp and/or if you tend to get easily distracted; and
(b) associating sounds to words while learning foreign languages.