" Imagine you spoke a language that had only verbs, a language where words like rock, mosquito, and cloud didnât 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 wouldnât be aware of? Thatâs too big a question, so I tried to answer a smaller one. What might a kidsâ alphabet book sound like if all the nous were verbs? ...