Steve Diver wrote:
>
> > Are some languages more friendly to sustainable agriculture?
>
> Yes, I think so.
>
> Some North American tribes (and elsewhere I'd guess) have a way of
> saying things that express doing, without an actor doing something to
> something else. Some ways of expression are more akin to being,
> rather than doing.
>
> On the other hand, European languages are structured on
> a subject-verb-object way of expession. Thus, it is part of our
> language structure that you do something to something else.
>
> It makes sense that the way our minds frame things make an
> impact on our cognition, and the way we act is based on which
> perspective we are oriented to. It has profound implications on the
> way we act in relation to each other and the earth.
>
> Potentially, the subject-verb-object language structure is the root of Western
> denigration of the earth. I know some tribal societies pissed in their own
> backyards too, but the big ass Euro slam is the one that will go down
> in history.
>
> A colleague in English said comparative deep structures of languages
> show that tribal linguistics and Euro linguistics differ in these
> ways, and that it is common knowledge in the field of linguistics.
>
> Steve Diver
>
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