Thursday, December 30, 2021

"NEWTON'S 3RD LAW" IN LINGUISTICS -

Consider these few typical sentences - 

1) John kicked the ball.
2)The ice melted.
3) The flower is beautiful
4) The phone is on the table.

Whatever you utter in language, it will be in one of these 2 'forms' - 1) A-outward, denoted by A-> OR 2) A-inward, denoted by A<-
What do these forms mean? The first means that from 'A', something is going outwards, coming out. When John kicks the ball, the kick, as an action, a force, comes "out" from John. The second means that something is coming upon / happening to 'A'. When ice melts, there is an effect "upon" the ice. Hence A-inward. When I say the flower is beautiful, the flower "hosts"/"bears" the beauty. So it is A-inward. When it is said that the phone is on the table, the phone is bestowing (or one could say "acting") ON the table. So it is A-outward.

In the case of 'A->' there will always be an effect (A'<-) simultaneously. John will receive a force exerted by the ball on his leg (by literally Newton's 3rd law). In case of 'A<-', there will be a corresponding action or effect done by A (A'->). The ice will suck in the heat from the surroundings (while melting) and make it cooler. In the case of the flower being beautiful, the corresponding A'-> is that the beauty is spread into the surroundings by the flower. In case of the phone being on the table, the A'<- is that the table supports/holds the phone (it exerts a reaction force on the phone, in Mechanics' terms). 

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