{"id":11259,"date":"2013-01-08T05:01:37","date_gmt":"2013-01-08T10:01:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/?p=11259"},"modified":"2013-01-08T08:21:25","modified_gmt":"2013-01-08T13:21:25","slug":"transcendence-is-moving-from-noun-to-verb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/transcendence-is-moving-from-noun-to-verb\/","title":{"rendered":"Transcendence is moving from noun to verb?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>GOOGLE is the number you get if you write the numeral 1 and then add 100 zeros. this is a largely lost mathematical factoid that&#8217;s been replaced by other meanings.<\/p>\n<p>Google is the most popular internet search engine. (yeah, Duh.)<\/p>\n<p>But something happened in contemporary culture when it was influenced by this culture of the information age. <a href=\"http:\/\/google.com\"><em><strong>Google<\/strong><\/em><\/a> made the leap worldwide from a noun (think: person, place, thing, or idea) to a <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>VERB<\/strong><\/span>. The noun form of Google standing for a company name sprouted into other parts of speech too.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Adjective: &#8220;If you want to know about me, do a Google search.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Adverb: &#8220;He Google\u00a0<\/strong><b>searched and found my article.&#8221;<\/b><\/p>\n<p><strong>Verb: &#8220;If you don&#8217;t know something, don&#8217;t ask me, just Google it!&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A lot of big things happen when this shift happens.<\/p>\n<p><strong>A noun gets this categorically right.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>A adjective hones down a noun. Specifics.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>An adverb specifies what a verb is doing or what an adjective is describing.<\/p>\n<p><strong>but, a <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Verb<\/span> not only shows action (as the\u00a0definition will tell\u00a0you), but also taps into the ontological core of the thing itself.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This is helpful to know when we say, for instance, &#8220;God is Love.&#8221; Love is a noun, verb, adjective (loving)\u00a0and maybe other things.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008080;\"><em><strong>I wonder if that&#8217;s where we locate transcendence.<\/strong> <\/em><\/span>Language captures crucial shifts in their broad strokes. It works to define parameters we can&#8217;t see. The layers ones.<\/p>\n<p>So&#8211;Will you be marginalized to just a noun? Or will you flourish into as an adjective and or verb?<\/p>\n<p>Tomorrow will be a PART II to this. The &#8220;how&#8221; bit.<\/p>\n<p>(Remember to sign up for email or RSS delivery.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>God, Google, and transcendent language of verbs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11261,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,5335,5626],"tags":[3878,6118,887,940,4377,4697,1102,1472,1518,1550,4716,1763,1796,4081,1961,2074,2077,5158,6116,2607,3857,4718,3421,5056,6117,3646,3711,3735,5577],"class_list":["post-11259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-art","category-creativity","category-spark-my-muse","tag-3878","tag-adjective","tag-culture","tag-define","tag-do","tag-down","tag-email","tag-god","tag-google","tag-growth","tag-if","tag-in","tag-internet","tag-just","tag-language","tag-lost","tag-love","tag-marginalized","tag-noun","tag-popular","tag-search","tag-speech","tag-things","tag-transcendence","tag-verb","tag-water","tag-will","tag-wonder","tag-write"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11259","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11259"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11259\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11288,"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11259\/revisions\/11288"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}