Re: Linguistic Predictions IV
- From: "Dylan Sung" <dylanwhs.tsktsktsk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 10 Sep 2005 21:04:51 +0100
"Dr. Jamshid Ibrahim" <Jdibrahim@xxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Thus growth or
> density of information necessitates a tool to communicate and interact
> faster. Human language might not be capable of keeping pace with this
> growth. Academic language uses more nouns than verbs (nominalization)
> beacuse you can pack more information into nouns than verbs and you can
> do a lot of other things on nouns. You can count them, modify them....
> Verbs in comparison are verbal or verbose (meaning: more talk, less
> matter). They i.e. verbs are more subjective, dynamic (no wonder the
> majority of verbs are dynamic and not stative), show change of time and
> mood which you don't have in nouns. Nouns are static, neutral to change
> and emotions and more objective. So we need something beyond English
> either as an adapted natural language or an artificial functioning next
> to our natural one. It can be any tool.
>
I have a couple of spanners, a hammer, a saw, various sized drills, and a
crowbar ready for action.
Dyl.
.
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