[OSList] Questioning Questioning

[Daniel Mezick via OSList]

Greetings to All Who Inquire (the "AWI people"....)

Questioning questioning is meta-questioning or "questioning qua 
questioning." The linguistic dimension of the interrogative tense in 
English is interesting to me.

SVO-P is a syntax. The SVO-p syntax (subject-verb-object, present tense) 
has no interrogative form. So-called "questions" are best phased 
starting with "I wonder," for example, "I wonder if anyone cares at all 
about SVO-p."

SVO-p is consistent with trend following (also known as "wave riding.")

Forming expressions in SVO-p helps the listener to quickly identify who 
is acting, what the action is, and upon what. SVO-p keeps thoughts in 
the now and may help clarify your thinking.

The past is often a convenient dumping ground for blame; the future is 
often a convenient place to deposit promises.

Present-tense expressions (in general) and SVO-p (in particular) both 
tend to make indirect communication in English very difficult.

The statement:
"My people will call your people, and we'll do lunch."

In SVO-p, it reads like this:
"My people plan to call your people about lunch."

The question:
"Does anyone have a question?"

In SVO-p, it reads like this:
"I wonder if anyone has a question."

Some languages are "tenseless" .....
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tenseless_language

There is controversy about how the Hopi language handles time: some say 
it is a tenseless language:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hopi_time_controversy

I hope you give SVO-p a try. You might want to walk around your town, 
and talk to people in SVO-p. The results are interesting.

The results may surprise you.

Kind Regards,
Daniel




On 1/7/16 11:48 AM, Harold Shinsato via OSList wrote:
> Hey Bhav!
>
> It sounds like you've started an interesting inquiry around inquiry 
> itself. I'd like to open space for your answers as well as the other 
> responses from Harrison & Michael P. - so we (and all the elders) can 
> best "sit" the question.
>
> Here's Bhav's question in brief: Do western style questions work in 
> every culture as an approach?
>
> I'll open it a bit more: What culture assumptions do we bring to our 
> requests, inquests, inquiry, 'quest'ions, that might help or hinder 
> the authentic opening of space?
>
>     Harold
>
> P.S. Of course I remember you Bhav. I remembered you before I met you 
> - as your influence preceded your presence at least in my 
> time-space-continuum. Thanks for reentering it here on the OSList.
>
> On 1/7/16 4:14 AM, Bhavesh Patel wrote:
>> Hey Harold and World,
>>
>> Merry Orthodox Christmas from Moldova where it has been snowing all 
>> day!!!
>>
>> Your question triggered a different kind of questionING in me. 
>> Personally I find questions/inquiry and Rilke's 'Live the questions 
>> now' approach very useful.
>>
>> *However my increasing sensitivity to culture makes me wonder whether 
>> this approach works for everybody, or whether it is a cultural thing, 
>> fitting more an inquiring Western culture? Sometimes do we 
>> overemphasise this approach, use it in a kind of universal way?*
>>
>> I have my own answers/experiences to the above questions but of 
>> course won't share them because you asked for questions!
>>
>>
>> Smiles Bhav...
>>
>> p.s. Harold, we met at the WOSonOS in London and talked a bit about 
>> complexity and Cynefin...
>>
>>
>>
>
> -- 
> Harold Shinsato
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>
>
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