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more interesting is david bohm's idea of the 'rheomode' "One could say that nouns do not really exist, only verbs exist. A noun is just a “slow” verb; that is,

• eru 17y ago
  Like speed, process, lightning vs to crawl, to last, to wait?
• RiderOfGiraffes 17y ago
  What he suggests is done, but in a more general way, in the constructed language "lojban". There the fundamental concept is the predicate (loosely equivalent to verb) and "nouns" are extracted/abstracted places from the predicates. Thus "mi tavla do" is "I speak to you", so "le tavla" is "the speaker" and "le se tavla" is "the listener". In this example, "mi" and "do" are the equivalent of pronouns. http://www.lojban.org/tiki/Lojban+Introductory+Brochure http://www.lojban.org/tiki/Lojban+Introductory+Brochure