[Jprogramming] linguist: "focus on verbs"

[Steven Taylor]

Hi,

A famous linguist once said that "to understand a new language, that you
should focus on the verbs first."  Who said that?  I know I came across the
idea of applying this to programming first in this community.  It might be
an article or a forum post.  Does someone here know?

Here's a short wikipedia article with all permutations of verb, subject,
object <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verb%E2%80%93subject%E2%80%93object>.
The reference I'm was along these lines.

I'm doing a talk, and I'd like to attribute this properly.

thanks!
-Steven T.