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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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thank you, i'm glad it was of interest. wrt Bohm, I had heard before something about that, and it sounds interesting, and i also agree with the idea of 'process' rather than 'stasis'. BUT, and it's a very big one, the idea of developing a language seems to me to be completely missing the point, and it goes against my intuition of a primordial language, and our need to 'work with what we have', so to speak.

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I await chapter one.

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