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What is B@ “Fresh Perspective” (and why isn’t everybody talking about it)?

By Beat Schindler In Uncategorized

Hi, my name is Beat — pronounced B@ — Schindler. At B@’s Fresh Perspective, I’m in charge to ensure it is all about words.

A million times a day

Before the day is over, someone will share with you a story. At B@’s Perspective, the goal of sharing the story of words is to start a movement, to change the world.

That’s because words have changed the world before, more than any other event before or since, and they can do it again beyond the shadow of a doubt.

Relax

To change the world by words, relax, there is no need to learn anything new, nor to change your point of view. At B@’s Perspective, all it takes is a fresh perspective that is unique, down to earth, and instantly actionable for everyone with an open mind.

It hasn’t always been easy

All through my life I’ve worked relentlessly to make it from rags to riches, but then suddenly, on a dark Friday night in February of 2012, I got kicked out of my house with my possessions in a suitcase, a backpack, and a blue IKEA-shoulder bag.

My prospects appeared bleak and my future dark. But the worst part was that I didn’t understand why me?

When your only options are to get capsized or get over it, you work hard to gain a new perspective, on that I give you my word. It wasn’t easy and the breakthrough — when I saw words for the first time — finally happened only in 2016. Now, hardly a day goes by when I don’t see how far I’ve come since then.

What have words got to do with it?

What have words got to do with it? All kinds of things are being said, depending on who is saying them.

Fact is, words have existed for the most recent 13,750 years only, in other words, for the most recent 3/1000th of a percent only. That means the first 99.9997 percent of Earth-Time have been wordless, and that in the remaining 3/1000th of a percent since then, we have successfully made it to the top of the food chain, the most advanced specie ever, fixing to get ready for breakfast on Mars.

Last but no least, it signifies that as recent as 13,750 years ago — when the Age was Stone, the Sahara green, and Northern Europe under 1-mile thick ice — that is before words existed, we were merely wishing for words, but now we’re drowning in them. At the time of writing, there are over a million words in just English alone, and by the time you read this, I suppose the number will be even bigger.

Every thought is a word

Try as hard as you might, there’s nothing you can think of that isn’t a word. In fact, it can be denied only by confirming it.

But with meanwhile more than a million words in the English language alone, with each thought we can think a word, how in the world is it possible to think a million thoughts? Well, possible it isn’t, not even for the smartest of minds, which means this is an agonizing time for billions of people all over the world.

Let me give you an example. Take a look at world.

Words don’t describe the world

As it is, we love to believe that words describe the world. But how often is that true? Well, words don’t describe the world. On the contrary, words only describe how we see the world. And for self-evident reasons, the same applies to life, love, and to broken hearts.

The heart of the matter

There is precious little our hearts cannot do. They may be dancing, trembling, aching, pounding, torn, or breaking. However, when they are just beating away quietly, doing their job, then we tend to ignore them or take them for granted, don’t we?

Years of research have led me to conclude we respond to words in similar ways.

In the beginning is the word

In the beginning is the word.

I am no-one to create a new opinion.

That is my story and what B@’s Perspective is about.

If you’re still with me, I respect and appreciate it.

Nothing is true until it is believed

And what to believe, or what not to believe, is a question of character and personal preference, to each their own.

What has nature got to do with it?

“The wisest and noblest teacher is nature itself.” — Leonardo da Vinci

We are part of nature, not separate from it. That means it is our thinking, all of it natural, which has us engaged in a war, of all things, against nature. But that is not a winning strategy. You can’t win with a losing hand. In our war against nature, if we win, we lose.

What has water got to do with it?

“Water is the driving force of all Nature.” — Leonardo da Vinci

“All the rivers run into the sea, yet the sea is not full. Unto the place from whence the rivers come, thither they return again.” — Richard Brautigan

“All water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was.” — Toni Morrison

Put differently, think about it. 70% of each of us is water.

Word Types

To get on par with religion, science, art, knitting, woodworking or any other topic taught at school, the word has a long way to go.

  • Religion without stories
  • Color without theory
  • Dance without rules
  • Art without schools
  • Science without labs
  • Archeology without arch
  • Universe without university
  • Knowledge without knowing
  • Knitting without wool
  • Woodworking without wood
  • Stargazing without stars
  • Traffic without signs

…wouldn’t work so well. But for words, having none of the above is considered alright.

If words were as clear as traffic signs, we would manage with fewer of them, wouldn’t we? Don’t get me wrong, I have nothing against the alphabet, however, to organise words alphabetically was a good start, but surely, that cannot be all there is to it.

Well, that is all there has been to it for thousands of years, and many a word-user still hangs on to the belief something began 2021 years ago, as if in the beginning was a storyteller, despite the fact everybody knows (some) words began earlier than that.

For word-beginners in the future, I think in addition to the alphabetical ranking of words, the story of words will have to be told, and words will have to be recognized for what they are.

Untranslated words

Complicate
Dictionary
Library
Literature
Real
Vocabulary

Foreign words translated into another foreign word.

Storia (Latin) > Histoire (French) > History (English)

IQ-only / Didn’t happen / Designed to confuse

Active Listening
Artificial
Behavioural Economics
Believer
Dirt-road
Emirates
Fake news
God
Happy
Human
Impostor syndrome
Intelligence, IQ
Life
Love
Multidirectional memory
Nation of god
Natural history
Positive psychology
Pre-history
Proof-positive
Promised land
Social media
Success
Truth

Common sense / Happened

You
Word
Story

Crazy words

Commonwealth <> Commonpoor
Delve
Disambiguation
Enmity
History
Human Rights <> Human Wrongs
In order to
Inable
Infallibility
Inhuman
Labor
Liable
Linguistics
Meme
Non-human
Per-ish
Proper
Remarkable
Sponse (as in re-sponse)
Uncompelled
United Nations
Vaudevillian
Vernacular

Noun-Only Words

Vision
Word

Forbidden Words

See extra page

In the beginning according to Wikipedia

Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, is reported to have about 2.5 billion unique visitors a month (Source: https://www.statista.com/statistics/1201889/most-visited-websites-worldwide-unique-visits/).

137,110 words

137,110 English words share 27 beginnings and 14 endings between them.

Words beginning in

Ab: 2,796 words (le, surd, use, yss)
Ana: 1019 words (emic, gram, l, log, lyst, rchy, tomy)
Cata: 322 words (strophe)
Co: 15,952 words (mic, operate, ordinate, rona, smos)
Con: 1,944 words (ceal, cept, fess, fuse, serve, sider, spire, template, verse)
Com: 934 words (mit, mute, pare, pete, petence, plete, plex, prehend)
Cor: 1,736 words (e, rect, respond, rode, rupt, sage)
Cy: 1,197 words (fluen, consisten)
De: 9,458 words (coy, ity, lusion, mocrat, monstrate, sign, tox)
Dis: 3,181 words (crepancy, empower, guise, may, tort)
Ex: 2,942 words (act, hale, ist, it, plore, press, tort, ult)
Exe: 190 words (cute, mpt, mplary, rcise, rtion)
Ig: 731 words (norance, noble, nite, nominious)
Il: 1,212 words (legal, luminate, logic, lusion, lustration)
Im: 3,073 words (pact, plore, ply, possible, press)
In: 5,820 words (doctrinate, hale, form, sane, telligent, vest)
Inter: 1,108 words (est, prete, sect, rupt, view)
Ir: 1,767 words (onic, ritate, rational, responsible)
Ish: 1,359 words (ap, ban, d, f, fam, fet, fin, par, pun, rel, van, w)
Multi: 594 words (ply, task, tude)
Over: 2,368 words (cast, kill, pass, see, take)
Pre: 184 words (conceived, destined, vent)
Pro: 3,801 words (be, fess, fit, gnose, ject, pel, per, se, test, ven, ximate)
Re: 8,629 words starting with Re (al, bel, grets, lief, putation, sponse, verse)
Un: 9,489 words (able, believable, do, glue, mask, roll)
Uni: 857 words (que, ty, verse)
Under: 847 words (lie, take, stand)

Words ending in

Able: 2,695 words (ador, c, cit, cur, do, en, f, li, lik, liv, lov, mak, min, par, pay, remark, s, siz, st, su, ten, tax, tow, un, voc)
Ability: 736 words (ar, cap, dis, in, mov, sal, st, su, us, vi)
Action: 281 words (satisf, trans)
Al: 10,721 words (an, co, di, du, he, go, me, ov, p, se, voc)
Ally: 3,027 words (du, liter, or, re, voc)
Ant: 1,470 words (ch, dop, err, inf, gr, gi, inc, me, mut, p, pl, rec, tru, w)
Ary: 1016 words (contempor, vocabul)
Ate: 4,415 words (b, c, d, el, f, g, gr, h, l, m, p, pl, r, st)
Ation: 10,723 words (communic, complic, imporvis, motiv, note, rationaliz, stimul, voc)
City: 381 words (capa)
Cy: 1,197 words (fluen, consisten, vacan)
Ibility: 519 words (in)
Ion: 14,981 words (funct)
Ology: 1,239 words (abi, zyth)

Words containing

Ature: 224 words (arm, candid, cre, fe, liter, m, n, st)
Temp: 441 words (le, let, er, erate, orary, t, at-temp-t)

1,269,938 definitions

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiktionary*

*“As of July 2021, en.wiktionary has over 791,870 gloss definitions and over 1,269,938 total definitions (including different forms) for English entries alone, with a total of over 9,928,056 definitions across all languages.”

21.36 billion words

According to Wikipedia, we now own 21.36 billion words across the world’s dictionaries.

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_dictionaries_by_number_of_words

37.725 billion words

Source: https://www.english-corpora.org/corpora.asp

155 billion words

“English-Corpora.org is the most widely used collection of corpora (highly searchable collections of texts) anywhere in the world. The corpora are used by more than 130,000 people each month, from more than 140 countries. In addition, hundreds of universities worldwide have academic licenses, which provide their users with expanded access to the corpora.

The corpora have been used as the basis of thousands of academic articles, theses, and dissertations, and they form the backbone of courses on language and linguistics throughout the world, at all levels of instruction. Virtually every book on “teaching English with corpora” in the last 5-10 years has focused primarily on these corpora (which are also sometimes called the “BYU Corpora”, for the university where they were created). Since the first corpora were released in 2005, a total of seventeen corpora have been created.”

Source: https://www.english-corpora.org/corpora.asp
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