However, when listening to an unknown foreign language, our ability to discerndifferent words is lost, and we recognize speech as being a stream of soundswithout many pauses.
The interdependence of thought and speech makes it clear that languages arenot so much a means of expressing truth that has already been established, buta means of discovering truth that was previously unknown. Their diversity is adiversity not of sounds and signs but of ways of looking at the world.
