Bob Hubbard
04-28-2010, 02:21 PM
Tagalog, language, deconstructed
April 4th, 2010
Who would have thought that Tagalog could be de-constructed and that a mathematical order found in our use of verb phrases?
Who would have thought that there would be a discrete number of key verbs expressing, covering, every human experience, thought, action, possibility?
Who would have thought that different languages could be working from the same set of verbs, all perfectly lined up in a mathematical grid?
Who would have thought we could get to the bottom of language?
But this is exactly what Luis Umali Stuart, my mathematician-turned-lexicographer-turned-discoverer brother, sets out to demonstrate in his ebook The Secret Grid of Language (http://www.lulu.com/content/e-book/the-secret-grid-of-language/8537171). There is a foreword by Nicole Revel, an expert in Anthropological Linguistics and Semantics, and Director of Research since 1988 in the Section 34 (Languages, Representations and Communication) of the French CNRS (National Center of Scientific Research, the largest basic science agency in Europe if not the world).
http://www.stuartsantiago.com/tagalog-language-deconstructed/
April 4th, 2010
Who would have thought that Tagalog could be de-constructed and that a mathematical order found in our use of verb phrases?
Who would have thought that there would be a discrete number of key verbs expressing, covering, every human experience, thought, action, possibility?
Who would have thought that different languages could be working from the same set of verbs, all perfectly lined up in a mathematical grid?
Who would have thought we could get to the bottom of language?
But this is exactly what Luis Umali Stuart, my mathematician-turned-lexicographer-turned-discoverer brother, sets out to demonstrate in his ebook The Secret Grid of Language (http://www.lulu.com/content/e-book/the-secret-grid-of-language/8537171). There is a foreword by Nicole Revel, an expert in Anthropological Linguistics and Semantics, and Director of Research since 1988 in the Section 34 (Languages, Representations and Communication) of the French CNRS (National Center of Scientific Research, the largest basic science agency in Europe if not the world).
http://www.stuartsantiago.com/tagalog-language-deconstructed/