NakedBalenciaga

5y

Point at object make a sound

NEW EQUITY

5y

Dookie

Not Guilty

5y

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?

XXENVYES444

5y

look up the tower of babel

jean pierre

5y

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.

Drench

5y

Lol u know whats funny, scientists claim they know everything about the universe but still dont know how pyramids were built nor can they attempt to make one, that knowledge was lost