Linger, and the words and things come into the mind; the anticipatory intention, the divination is there no more. But as the words that replace it arrive, it welcomes them successively and calls them right if they agree with it, it rejects them and calls them wrong if they do not. The intention to-say-so-and-so is the only name it can receive.
bit confused here, but is the author saying that as words are said we very quickly think of the word and almost as quickly the word leaves our conscious?
If we know English and French and begin a sentence in French, all the later words that come are French; we hardly ever drop into English. And this affinity of the French words for each other is not something merely, operating mechanically as a brain-law, it is something we feel at the time.
Is our consciousness or our mind thinking in the language we know most or do we think of an idea or concepts and then attach words that we learn to that concept that may not originally have language?
'Wait! 'Hark!' 'Look!'
In a philosophy of language class we discussed how word, or language is spoken, but one of the discussion is that this does not solely make a language rather you need an interpreter someone who can read or hear a word and then through their conscious interpret what is being said by a mental concept that they create.