as far as I can tell, what's going on here is that Whorf is on the one hand unable to simply shake loose the grade school theorizing that nouns are person-place-thing, while verbs are events
that is to say, he can't simply say "Obviously your grade school teacher was wrong"
beka valentine
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2025-03-31 18:02:12 UTC
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