Ancestors

Written by Devine Lu Linvega on 2025-01-29 at 03:47

Our culture is not fluent in descriptions of process.

We are better at nouns than verbs.

https://www.cabinetmagazine.org/issues/5/easterling.php

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Toot

Written by Devine Lu Linvega on 2025-01-29 at 04:03

In R. W. Kimmerer's Grammar of Animacy, she says that 70% of words in Potawatomi are verbs, as opposed to English in which only 30% are. Through the lens of an animist language, the hill is less there, than there is occupied at being a hill. She puts it succinctly in "A bay is a noun only if water is dead".

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Descendants

Written by zetta june, chaos arc on 2025-01-29 at 04:25

@neauoire mood

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Written by Brianary on 2025-01-29 at 06:43

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This struck me about French. Are romance languages more verb-centric, or is it just me?

I've got a crazy theory that French programmers grasp F# (and maybe FP in general) more easily than anglophones.

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Written by Isaac Freund on 2025-01-29 at 08:44

@neauoire This makes me think of Erich Fromm's To Have or To Be, which makes an incredibly convincing argument that our static, noun-based view of the world (the having mode of existence) is the root of much of our unhappiness and many of societies problems.

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Written by James 🦉 #FBPE 🇪🇺 on 2025-01-29 at 12:56

@ifreund @neauoire And makes me think of Leroy Little Bear's essay "Jagged Worldviews Colliding" about this, and the Eurocentric emphasis on definite binary definitions.

https://www.law.utoronto.ca/sites/default/files/documents/hewitt-leroy_little_bear_on_jagged_worldviews.pdf

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Written by Sergey on 2025-01-29 at 09:35

@neauoire If I understand it right, Ithkuil (artificially created language) has only verbs. There is no noun “dog” in the language, only a verb “to be a dog”.

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