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View from Planet Nancy
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Nancy Casey
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Oct. 5, 2012, 6:08 a.m.
" Imagine you spoke a language that had only verbs, a language where words like rock, mosquito, and cloud didn’t evoke objects that you could draw a boundary around, but instead called to mind the type of action that keeps a rock, a mosquito or a cloud in existence. If your language was like that, would it give particular qualities to the way you saw the world, qualities English speakers wouldn’t be aware of? That’s too big a question, so I tried to answer a smaller one. What might a kids’ alphabet book sound like if all the nous were verbs? ...

Transcript: AuthorNancyCasey.com/alphabets-and-verbs/
Music by Kevin MacLeod
Date-stamped 9-5-12, but material is not pegged to any particular date or event.

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