Thread:User talk:WaitingforGodot/Language and Ph.D. programs/reply (10)

Some simple examples.

USians have the privilege of much of the world using English and generally not being in close proximity to other countries that use a different language (US-Mexico border excepted of course). For me personally, language has always been simple -- a matter of replacing one set of referents for mentalese (if you want to be Fodorian about it) with another. Math, programming, and statistics feel like just another language to me. Other people seem to think differently, of course.