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All the damn time. Probably too much. But there is, among a multitude of thinkers, a separation between the meaning of words and the act of speaking them out loud. Lacan for instance: https://nosubject.com/index.php?title=Enunciation
An example is if you are trying to work something out, or understand something I think if you can’t clearly put it into words what exactly you are trying to dissect then you really don’t understand it at all. This exists under the purview of speaking / enunciation as thought, and mental imagery does not strictly follow a lineage of stages like an argument, or even a linguistic frame for that matter.
My favorite times when I talk to myself is when I’m drunk because it feels like someone else is talking and I’m just on a ride. Probably self absorbed because I like to hear myself talk if I’m being honest.
