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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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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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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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