“The president said some words, like nouns and verbs.”
Ze Frank (1972) American online performance artist
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“Most metaphysical words in Hopi are verbs, not nouns as in European languages. The verb tunatya contains in its idea of hope something of our words 'thought,' 'desire,' and 'cause,' which sometimes must be used to translate it.”
Source: Language, thought and reality (1956), p. 61.
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