This is kind of a spinoff thread yeah. But

there are thoroughly discussed and debated theories of how humanity and the world itself came about, which would be the one thing you could maybe convince me is an even more complicated idea to wrap our heads around

But correct me if im wrong, linguistics in higher education mostly concerns the semantics of speech itself, as opposed to the origin of how it all actually began, if that makes sense?

Bro how DF did human beings create meaning from different sounds and syllables and how did everyone decide what each individual object and concept would be named. and then how did we achieve uniformity through translation in the thousands of languages that have come and gone throughout the years?

thought about this too. whos the nigga that looked at a rock and said "rock" and everyone agreed to call it a rock. then they passed that down and eventually they went to other groups of people and someone said this thing here is a "rock" . and everyone agreed.

I know that words and spelling/pronounciation changes and the etymology of the words evolve so the word rock was not always just rock. It evolved to the word rock. But I still think the fact that we all agreed on that word meaning this is crazy.

worcestershire

This s*** trips me out all the time

crine brine dine

thats trippy

Point at object make a sound

Lol

Ok dis high shower thoughts

I wonder if anyone could point us to some good sources, because I imagine everyone ponders this at one point or another. Mind boggling.

No, existence is the one mystery.

Who the f*** created everything???? And religious ppl need to explain who created God.

Latin
Greek
Cyrillic
Armenian
Korean
Hebrew (only considered a pure alphabet when written with vowels)
Arabic (debatable, given that even with vowels, it doesn’t represent all the sounds of every dialect)
Braille
Georgian

99% of the worlds alphabets come from these alphabets

There are people who study the origins of language but it’s difficult since there’s barely any concrete evidence

Cognitive revolution, something happened to our brains which allowed for detailed communication and the ability to imagine fiction. Before that we probably communicated in a similar fashion to other animals

Man i dont caaaaare

lacan

Time

Time

oh i thought you meant it as language is a mystery because it takes time to actually learn, sure you can use google translate but that doesn't mean you can speak or write the language fluently.

Linguistics in higher education DOES concern the origins of language. There are multiple theories. Read some Chomsky.

the brain named itself lol dats brazy

also maths existed before mankind.

Some species of monkeys have different sounds from different types of threats like one sound would mean predators coming from the sky and another sound would mean predators coming from land

Tbh language doesn’t seem that miraculous imo compared to signs (even tho it is)

When we first associated signs on rock to ideas and thoughts it unlocked something in the human brain that made everything else possible

Read into some linguistic philosophers like Russell, Carnap, Chomsky, Frege etc

They've got some interesting concepts and puzzles surrounding language