Before the subjects (half of them native German speakers who spoke English very well, half of them native English speakers who spoke German very well) went to sleep in the lab, researchers asked what they were thinking about, if there was speaking or thinking in a language going on and, if so, what language it was.
Worth thinking about, indeed.
Silence and nature are so nourishing, most people are not even thinking about not speaking.
I can't now imagine life without Beethoven, can't imagine not listening to and thinking about Beethoven (being spoken to by him, and speaking with him).
If you feel your lifelog should include what you are thinking about, you can speak into a digital tape recorder, but Bell typically records only conversations.
When he talks about the Yankees he has loved — that is the word he uses, without even thinking about it — he speaks not of Jeter, Posada and Rivera, but of Berra, DiMaggio and Rizzuto.
Not long after Thorpe broke up with his boyfriend, he began thinking about the way he speaks, and the way other gay men speak, and why both suddenly bothered him so much.
"I have been thinking and speaking about it with Rio (Ferdinand) in the car.
Whether they are engaged in being saved or redeemed on the one hand, or thinking and speaking about that redemption, its agent, and its meaning on the other, they are concentrating on the essence of their experience.
