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David Bohm, theoretical physicist, near the end of his life, ditched his primary field of research (not entirely, of course) for a deep dive into language, and ended up working on developing what he called the rheomode, a verb based language that allowed the speaker to more accurately and reverently acknowledge the world not as a cluster of nouns, fixed and immovable persons places and things, but as existing in a continual state of process. The Algonquin family of languages was created similarly — they would never say, “there’s a river” they would instead say, “that water is rivering over there,” because they know it hasn’t always been a river and it won’t always be.

Excited to read the next installment!

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Lucas's avatar

I await chapter one.

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