In Javaland, you see, nouns are very important, by order of the King himself. In the Kingdom of Javaland, where King Java rules with a silicon fist, people aren't allowed to think the way you and I do. Let me tell you a story about a place that did exactly that. Wouldn't it be strange if we suddenly decided that we could no longer use verbs? I think we can all agree that the parts of speech each play a role, and all of them are important.
Nouns may be everywhere, but life's constant change, and constant interest, is all in the verbs.Īnd of course in addition to verbs and nouns, we also have our adjectives, our prepositions, our pronouns, our articles, the inevitable conjunctions, the yummy expletives, and all the other lovely parts of speech that let us think and say interesting things. Action even gives spices their spice! After all, they're not spicy until you eat them. It's the changes happening to those nouns that make them interesting.Ĭhange requires action. Nouns are things, and where would we be without things? But they're just things, that's all: the means to an end, or the ends themselves, or precious possessions, or names for the objects we observe around around us. Nouns can fall on your head, creating a big noun on your noun. We eat nouns, and buy nouns from the store, and we sit on nouns, and sleep on them. Of course our thoughts are also filled with nouns. Our freedom comes precisely from our ability to do things. If we were all just rocks sitting in the sun, life might still be OK, but we wouldn't be free.
GIT JAVA FABLED LANDS FREE
Above all else, we are free to do and to act. Our thoughts are filled with brave, fierce, passionate actions: we live, we breathe, we walk, we talk, we laugh, we cry, we hope, we fear, we eat, we drink, we stop, we go, we take out the garbage.
GIT JAVA FABLED LANDS SERIES
Regardless of the language you chose, or the exact steps you took, taking out the garbage is a series of actions that terminates in the garbage being outside, and you being back inside, because of the actions you took. Resume playing your video game (or whatever you were doing)Įven if you don't think in English, you still probably still thought of a similar set of actions, except in your favorite language. If you're a normal, everyday, garden-variety, English-speaking person, and you're asked to describe the act of taking out the garbage, you probably think about it roughly along these lines: As in, "Johnny, take out that garbage! It's overflowing!" If you're easily offended, or prone to being a disagreeable knave in blog comments, please stop reading now.īefore we begin the story, let's get some conceptual gunk out of the way.Īll Java people love "use cases", so let's begin with a use case: namely, taking out the garbage. It is neither a story for the faint of heart nor for the critical of mouth. 1Ĭaution: This story does not have a happy ending. Hello, world! Today we're going to hear the story of Evil King Java and his quest for worldwide verb stamp-outage. They've a temper, some of them-particularly verbs: they're the proudest-adjectives you can do anything with, but not verbs-however, I can manage the whole lot of them! Impenetrability! That's what I say!
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