This verb-noun split in latin-rooted languages makes me to recall the essay by Steve Yegge "Execution in the Kingdom of Nouns" https://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2006/03/execution-in-kingdo...
It's really amazing how our linguistic system influences our process of thinking and systems we produce. Also, "unknown unknowns" phenomena (part about blue color in the article) explains why lambda calculus feels so alien :)