[LMB] When World-Views Collide, books

[Matija Grabnar]

I think you are using "word" as for two different things here.

a) as a spoken unit of language

b) as a bearer of a unit of information

Most of us tend to use the same word for both things interchangeably 
because we have a 1:1 mapping between the two.

However, I think people who use sign language exclusively, don't use 
words in the same way. I think everybody uses words as b, but not 
everybody associates each unit of information with a specific sequence 
of sounds.

I am multilingual, and while my thoughts are in words, I think in 
different languages. I can/I do sometimes think about the same thing in 
different languages.

That would seem to imply that in my brain there is an underlying 
concept, which the infrastructure of my brain can translate into 
whichever language I am thinking in in any given moment.