2007-02-07 08:03:23 · 18 answers · asked by Debbie O 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Other - Society & Culture
Initially there must have been an intuitive formulation of words for the most important aspects of life given through the unconscious. This must have played a great part in our use of language as even birds, whales and other life forms have an ability to communicate for mating and warnings of danger. (They have no schools)
We were told by a great teacher that the primordial sound (Big Bang) was the first sound and that resonated throughout all universes as the sacred sound OM that has somehow become Amen in the Greek or Latin form. From this one sound all the syllables of the ancient Sanskrit language were formed and one can only guess that over thousands of years the formulation of that language has been adapted regionally. One only has to look at the way the English language has been adapted say in America where the terminology has been adapted and to some extent a translation is already required.
Our social and occupational lives must also have influenced the formulation of words as we can see today the IT industry has given us a whole new vocabulary that is still expanding and old terms such as Fletcher (One who made arrows) Cooper (One who made Barrels have little usage. Great question, that’s the best we can do, hope you find it of some use and don’t class it as Cobblers (Those who mend shoes) [Now slang for nonsense].
2007-02-13 11:27:00 · answer #1 · answered by Cool Breeze 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well,I invented the word Clackmahooty.
It's a steam powered musical Scottish Unicycle.
For some reason,it hasn't caught on yet.
Neither has 'Squeedlomping' which is the act of expelling the air from a hot water bottle before pouring water in it..
I'm not having much luck,am I?
Have a nice Grotningy,
Misterviv.
2007-02-07 16:10:20 · answer #2 · answered by misterviv 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
anyone can invent words,i prefer to say they where created. A board of lucky people get payed a lot of money to review & decide if your word is worthy of a place in the literal concise that we live by.if you want to throw some suggestions in there then go right ahead.
2007-02-07 16:09:49 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The words were obviously invented by many people for the same thing in different countries. Then someone collated the words of different languages.
2007-02-14 18:19:27 · answer #4 · answered by barrie w 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Upanishads say that Almighty created goddess Vac
(speech) who uttered the energy called Om. (Other
religions also agree that in the begining of creation,
there was word). Element Akasa (the nuclear state of
matter, since earth receives nuclear particles from the
Sun and other celestial bodies) was created from Om.
Akasa represents speech and listening of sounds.
Element Fire (plasma, the fourth state of matter) was
created from Akasa. Element Air (gasious state) was
created from Fire. Element Water (liquid state) was
created from Air. And element Earth (solid state) was
created from water. Goddess Vac used these Elements for
rest of the creation and gave them names.
2007-02-14 05:13:59 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Check out a decent dictionary. You'll find the origin of most words at the end of their definition. Not sure about the word 'google' and similar!
2007-02-13 08:10:41 · answer #6 · answered by michael w 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Adam
2007-02-07 16:07:39 · answer #7 · answered by der_grosse_e 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Raquel Welch, in the movie 'One Million BC'.
Before that one bang on the head with a club meant 'feel like shagging?' and two bangs meant 'bugger off I've got a headache"
2007-02-07 17:12:01 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Language evolved with each Generation.
2007-02-13 11:30:02 · answer #9 · answered by Ollie 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The English, we started everything!!
Just kidding. Im not sure to be honest. I think it evolved from something and wasnt documented so i dont think we will ever know.
2007-02-11 10:42:53 · answer #10 · answered by --- SXY --- 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋