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Many teams have created best practices for how they should name & describe their @apachekafka events. When they do this, a kind of murky categorization emerges, but no one can quite make out where the boundaries are. As it turns out, linguists beat us to it a long time ago. 1/
Courtesy of @sapinker in The Stuff of Thought, linguists break down event-verbs into a set of subtle, yet apt classes. Here are a few of them.
Events can go on indefinitely (like "running around") or culminate in a clear endpoint (like "drawing a circle"). The latter are "telic", and the former "atelic".
Events can also be categorized whether they spread out in time (like "running") or occur effectively instantaneously (like "drawing a circle"). The former are called "durative", the latter "momentaneous".
(What "effectively instantaneously" actually means is itself an interesting foray into human perception. It goes by the term "specious present".)
There& #39;s also classes to describe repetition (like "pound a nail") and inception of state (like "sit down"). The former are called "iterative" because they only make sense in multiples, and the latter "inceptive".
