Episode 86 Feelings are, like, inside things

When you were a kid, was there something that inspired wonder in you?

Is there anything that has inspired wonder for you more recently?

For me as a child it was something I read in a picture book: ‘Colours are outside things. Feelings are inside things.’ As an adult it was the idea that language evolves to produce forms that are more subjective, more personal, more enveloping. The word ‘like’ is a great example of that.

The evolution of grammar is a move toward more personhood—which is a way of creating the experience of a self, with an inside and an outside.

Maybe the self is one expression of the Earth’s evolution, and language—specifically grammar—is the mechanism by which the self comes into being.

The story I read in this episode is ‘The multidimensional language learners’, and it’s available on grammarfordreamers.com.

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