Is language a form of thought or communication?

As a wise man once said.....least said the better...

Let's turn this around. Does the language you think in govern which thoughts are likely or even possible? 

My kind of topic. Apparently not Tony2011's, but it takes all sorts. Pressed for time and on my phone at the mo, but google Sapir-Whorf hypothesis...

Dave***t posted:

My kind of topic. Apparently not Tony2011's, but it takes all sorts. Pressed for time and on my phone at the mo, but google Sapir-Whorf hypothesis...

My issue, Dave, in case you  have missed all the fuss, is (was) not with this thread... But this has long been water under the bridge. 

Yesterday news, mate!

Ah, I get you.  The look on the baby's face is not atypical of the look many people have when topics such as this crop up, hence my confusion.  Trust me, when philosophy is one of your interests, you get used to seeing it.

I'm dyslexic and sometimes aphasic, as a result I know what I use internally to process thought, and it's not related to spoken language.  What I use is an internal symbolic notation that I translate into language in order to communicate.