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> when you can think before you speak in terms that others can understand when the words leave your lips.

See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39714485 ; I had been surprised by how many HN'ers perceived "only uttering what one has had a chance to edit beforehand" as being more hindrance than help.

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At this point I’ve reined it in to be a tool. When it formed, it was so useful it became my primary method of communication. As I’ve progressed, it’s now a part of my tool bag I can call on. I only learned English as a toddler, and it’s definitely my native language, but I came from having another native language first. I often wonder if that’s why my brain didn’t form an inner voice. I had to learn a new native language at a critical learning period, and I ended up somewhere half way.

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