Stijn Bakker
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Four languages

I describe four language we speak
Not to communicate amongst each other
But to provide the grammar of our thinking

Science

Exact, as spoken by progressionals
Expressing itself in absolutes
Focus on material stuff

A language in which casual relationships are drawn
Hypotheses made

This is the language of control
Capturing the workings of the world in laws and rules

Law

As spoken by lawyers, adminstrators and politicians
Focus not on exactitudes, but reasoning
On sequentiality of words and sentences
And the emotions they evoke

The language that focuses on what can be
Not what is

A contract is drafted and tested from different scenarios
As is a law

A politician focuses on what should be
What is to come
And cannot yet be now

Logic

The language of programmers
Closely linked eto science,
But a hybrid with the language of law

Programmers capture a problem in repeatable cubes, logically coherent
They focus on what’s to come, and structure code in such a way that what is to happend won’t fail

It’s the language of building
Moving forward
Stepping forward from what is,
and into what’s going to be

Spirituality

The knot in your stomach
Intuition
Or simply raw emotions

The language that ties everything together
And provides us with meaning
and peace of mind

The language we don’t want to talk about
A language without logic or exactness
A language without control
A language so personal we are unable to defend it with arguments

A language we do not control
And do not understand
Or don’t even want to understand