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'The essential problem is that human language is not just about saying what and where things are and which qualities they harbor, such as being green or tall. Language is about what happened, what’s different, what’s on the move. At its core, language is all about the action — to wit, the verbs.'

nytimes.com/2023/06/01/opinion

@cyrilpedia very cool. Since language is for building predictive models of a dynamical reality, not surprising that verbs are most important. Still, general purpose verbs probably facilitate encoding and transmission.

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