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Comment author: hylleddin 28 May 2013 04:56:41AM *  9 points [-]

Try to take advantage of possible Sapir Whorf effects by constructing your own language to use for thinking in. I got this idea after finding a link here to this New York Times article which has several examples of such effects.

Random brainstorming on potential things to consider including:

It would probably be best to do this after learning at least one other language that is quite different from your native language. Also, keeping ways words can be wrong in mind is likely a good idea.

This would likely also have the same effects as thinking in any foreign language

I may or may not actually try this after I've learned Korean sufficiently well.

Comment author: ygert 28 May 2013 07:06:55AM 4 points [-]

Certainly a ridiculous munchkin idea! It's a cool idea, although I would estimate that the actual difficulty of getting it working is very high. If you do manage, that would be quite awesome though. If you are serious about actually trying this, check out The Language Construction Kit . It's a pretty cool website giving tips and advice on language construction. Perhaps it could be useful.

Comment author: [deleted] 28 May 2013 12:23:31PM *  3 points [-]

More resources about language construction

I think this one is particularly useful for hylleddin's purposes.

Comment author: hylleddin 28 May 2013 05:41:41PM *  0 points [-]

Thank you for the resources! I've been a fan of conlanging for a while, but I've mostly used linguistics references and The Language Construction Kit.