# Do you divide your thoughts into sentences?

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [November 19, 2012, 8:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-divide-your-thoughts-into-sentences/641483 "2012-11-19T08:31:40Z")\
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**Post date:** [November 20, 2012, 9:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-divide-your-thoughts-into-sentences/641483/21 "2012-11-20T09:49:09Z")

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> [@blindboyard](#):
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> On The Ricky Gervais show he has a go at Karl because Karl thinks in sentences, while Ricky thinks in images and sensations. I’m like Karl, I think in words not vague impressionistic ideas.

I think in conversations. I am fully aware that the person I’m talking to is me, but it helps me immensely when I’m trying to put together a thought.  
I remember one episode where Ricky asked Karl: “What would you do if you met your doppleganger?”

Karl responded with something like: “How would I know me is me?”

Of course Ricky and his pal Steve(?) gave him a ration of shit over this. But I completely get what Karl was talking about.

In that particular episode, Ricky and Steve were the ones who looked like dumbasses, Not Karl.

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**Post date:** [November 20, 2012, 12:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-divide-your-thoughts-into-sentences/641483/22 "2012-11-20T12:37:18Z")

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How about individuals who, instead of stream of consciousness posts, use commas excessively?

That would be me, a comma whore.

I’m pretty sure I talk that way as well.

I think in pictures, sentences, three dimensionally (I’m a contractor and I need to be able to’see’ before I build) and vaguely emotionally. Tactile, too.

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**Post date:** [November 20, 2012, 12:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-divide-your-thoughts-into-sentences/641483/23 "2012-11-20T12:50:59Z")

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I can read this thread and get the gist of everything being said while singing “Who Killed Bambi?”

I can stop singing it out loud and sing it in my head and still get the gist of what I’m reading.

I can’t sing it in my head and also type out this response, and I certainly can’t imagine Bambi swirling around an icer-rink\*, sing WKB? in my head and type replies at the same time.

- Typing it was easy enough, but picturing it in my head while composing a reply is a different matter. The words came unbidden from my mind; there was no preceding image of Bambi ice-skating.

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