Speakers hesitate or make brief pauses filled with sounds like 'uh' or 'uhm' mostly before nouns. Such slow-down effects are far less frequent before verbs, as researchers working together with an international team have discovered by looking at examples from different languages. [
1] We believe Logos rules everything. And we like to see a cosmos made out of verbs. We uhhhh admire action and kinesis. But the turtle will always be ahead of Achilleas. Achilleas who exists even though he will never uhmmmm overpass that turtle. Logos is just noise. Silence rules our world. And when all the trees have fallen, what is left will be left to tell our tale. We were once here. We did not run. We just let the turtle be. Don’t hesitate to hesitate. You are what you do not do…
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