Devine Lu Ator on Nostr: I've had had on my mind R. W. Kimmerer's writing on the Grammar of Animacy, in which ...
I've had had on my mind R. W. Kimmerer's writing on the Grammar of Animacy, in which she says that 70% of words in Potawatomi are verbs, as opposed to English in which only 30% are. Through the lens of an animist language, the hill is less there, than there is occupied at being a hill. She puts it succinctly in "A bay is a noun only if water is dead".
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