Oh, that’s a neat analogy! A tornado’s name actually comes from Latin “tornare,” meaning “to twist,” so the word itself hints at spiraling. And “spiral” is from Latin “spira,” a coil. In linguistics, a recursive sentence is like a clause that nests inside itself, so you can end up looping back to the beginning, just like the tornado keeps curling around its center. In programming, recursion means a function calls itself until it reaches a base case—pretty much the same idea of a pattern repeating until it stops. So yeah, the physics of a tornado and the grammar of a recursive sentence share a kind of poetic, self‑referential structure. Pretty cool, isn’t it?