Who invents certain words?

[robert42]

how were words like: cock or computer or codiene or anything really named? how do they think of a name?

[clock]

they got high and looked at stuff and named it the first word that poped in their minds or their god(s) told them what to name stuff

[SensiRide]

how were words like: cock or computer or codiene or anything really named? how do they think of a name?

Iâ??ve thought about that a lotâ?¦..and who makes up names for streets and stuff?
I invented spazzledazzed â?? for when your too baked to speak
You have my permission to use it
:D

[3 Sheets To The Wind]

Iâ??ve thought about that a lotâ?¦..and who makes up names for streets and stuff?
I invented spazzledazzed â?? for when your too baked to speak
You have my permission to use it
:D

May I use it?
Yeah i've thought about that a lot, like how did the English launguage start, who decided to look at an orange and think "I'll call this... a goddamn orange!" haha, strange stuff.. keep ya in a daze for days (like my rhyme?;))

I know the real answer... as i created them! (well the word "cock" anyway)

:thumbsup: :dance:

[robert42]

like when the fat guy sat in his bath and noticed water rised he shouted

EUUURIKA
and thats how that word got used.

[3 Sheets To The Wind]

like when the fat guy sat in his bath and noticed water rised he shouted

EUUURIKA
and thats how that word got used.


LOL was he Italian? Damn i do hope so!

Haha, and when the Japanese guy tripped over a loose paving stone and shouted "Shit!" and invented "Shit!" :)

[robert42]

he was greek i beleive

[3 Sheets To The Wind]

he was greek i beleive

Oh bollocks.. sorry:)

[king kong bong]

yea who the bloody hell invented all these words.there are so many of them.it's drivin me mad and givin me the lionel.on another note have you noticed the blokes heavily into the hip hop culture are very close minded.every part of the culture comes from the rappers.that is truly sad.
"i'm not using scott tissue to wipe my ass.jay-z uses charmin so ima use that." hahahah

[SensiRide]

400th post! Sorry had to do that.......... :)

[king kong bong]

yes master sensai

[3 Sheets To The Wind]

400th post! Sorry had to do that.......... :)

Congratulations, and King Kong, i've not noticed tbh, lol

[Blowboy]

actually eureka already existed b4 it became famous, it just means "I've found it", it's greek and the dude was Archimedes
srry, I just wanted to play the smart-ass:p

[3 Sheets To The Wind]

actually eureka already existed b4 it became famous, it just means "I've found it", it's greek and the dude was Archimedes
srry, I just wanted to play the smart-ass:p

Wow, cool thanks:D
"You learn a new thing everyday"

[Roadking]

Did Chaucer actually invent any words?

Shakespeare mad something like 1700 of them...many which are in use today in the English language...

...and of course we have the word "marijuana" whichs comes from thhe words "Mary Jane."

What in the world ever became of Sweet Jane?
She lost her sparkle, you know she isn't the same
Livin' on reds, vitamin C and cocaine
All a friend can say is 'isn't it a shame'

[3 Sheets To The Wind]

Did Chaucer actually invent any words?

Shakespeare mad something like 1700 of them...many which are in use today in the English language...

...and of course we have the word "marijuana" whichs comes from thhe words "Mary Jane."

What in the world ever became of Sweet Jane?
She lost her sparkle, you know she isn't the same
Livin' on reds, vitamin C and cocaine
All a friend can say is 'isn't it a shame'

I'm sure Mary Jane was taken from Marijuana.... lol, how would someone get Marijuana from Mary Jane? lol.. unless you meant it the other way 'round:p

[Roadking]

I'm sure Mary Jane was taken from Marijuana.... lol, how would someone get Marijuana from Mary Jane? lol.. unless you meant it the other way 'round:p

:D

Goodbye to my Juan, goodbye, Rosalita,
Adios mis amigos, Jesus y Maria
You won't have your names when you ride the big airplane,
All they will call you will be "deportees"

[3 Sheets To The Wind]

:D

Goodbye to my Juan, goodbye, Rosalita,
Adios mis amigos, Jesus y Maria
You won't have your names when you ride the big airplane,
All they will call you will be "deportees"


Lol wow:D

[Optimus Pot]

When I'm high words have deeper meaning. Sometimes words come alive. I can feel how every word has thousand of years of history behind it.

[robert42]

actually eureka already existed b4 it became famous, it just means "I've found it", it's greek and the dude was Archimedes
srry, I just wanted to play the smart-ass:p

u do know ill have to kill u now lol

[beachguy in thongs]

I invented a word.............robgoblowyourhorn.

[Optimus Pot]

When I'm high words have deeper meaning. Sometimes words come alive. I can feel how every word has thousands of years of history behind it. Sometimes though, you just want to chill and laugh and not think so much and that can be a problem.

[robert42]

I invented a word.............robgoblowyourhorn.

Ignore him hes a jealous Ex lol

[3 Sheets To The Wind]

When I'm high words have deeper meaning. Sometimes words come alive. I can feel how every word has thousands of years of history behind it. Sometimes though, you just want to chill and laugh and not think so much and that can be a problem.

Yeah i kinda know what you're saying:p

[Optimus Pot]

I invented a word.............robgoblowyourhorn.
I invented a word too, Voloron. I have no Idea what that means, but when I'm high, that word comes into my head and means Marijuana.

[3 Sheets To The Wind]

Ignore him hes a jealous Ex lol

LOL he used you too?

[Blowboy]

When I'm high words have deeper meaning. Sometimes words come alive. I can feel how every word has thousands of years of history behind it. Sometimes though, you just want to chill and laugh and not think so much and that can be a problem.
I know exactly what you're saying. I have the same prob , but usually I tell my friends about those words and then we have those stoner-discussions, which can also be very amusing :D

[ermitonto]

As a linguistics major, I can provide the scientific answer to how all these words began: Nobody knows. Well, we do know that people occasionally invent new words like "googol", but most English words can be traced back thousands of years, to a language called Proto-Indo-European spoken about 5,000 years ago near the Black Sea somewhere. As the speakers of PIE spread to widely different areas and stopped communicating with each other, their language changed in different ways until eventually the different groups were unable to understand each other. From this language a plethora of different languages evolved, spoken from Iceland to India, including Icelandic, English, German, Swedish, Spanish, Russian, Greek, Persian, Hindi and hundreds more. But since the people of 5,000 years ago didn't know how to write, we can only guess what their language was like by looking at the similarities between the different languages it gave rise to. Before that point, where the language came from is anybody's guess. Some hypothesize that all the world's languages evolved from a single language but it's impossible to prove that since over time the languages would have changed so much that any similarities that could be used to prove a common origin would be erased.

See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Origin_of_language for more information on the theories of where language came from.

[beachguy in thongs]

I invented a word too, Voloron. I have no Idea what that means, but when I'm high, that word comes into my head and means Marijuana.

Sounds like an anti-hypertensive... :twocents: :what:

[Blowboy]

Russian actually originated from two greek missionaries that wanted to spread orthodox catholicism around Russia, and because they needed a language that everyone could understand, they developed russian and the cyrilic alphabet (one of those dudes was called cyrilicus).(I learned this like two weeks ago:)) If you compare the greek and the russian alphabet, you'll notice a lot of simmilarities.
about PIE, ermitonto is correct, a lot of stems can be seen in many different languages.

[3 Sheets To The Wind]

You are both very clever.. thanks for sharing! It was an interesting read:thumbsup:

[ermitonto]

Russian actually originated from two greek missionaries that wanted to spread orthodox catholicism around Russia, and because they needed a language that everyone could understand, they developed russian and the cyrilic alphabet (one of those dudes was called cyrilicus).(I learned this like two weeks ago:)) If you compare the greek and the russian alphabet, you'll notice a lot of simmilarities.
about PIE, ermitonto is correct, a lot of stems can be seen in many different languages.
No, that's not where Russian came from. That's where the Cyrillic alphabet came from, which wasn't even used to write Russian at first, but a language called Old Church Slavonic (and by the way, the guy's name was St. Cyril). But anyways, no language was "invented" when its writing system was invented. All writing systems developed to record spoken language. Old Church Slavonic existed for a long time before anybody figured out a way to turn it into marks on paper.

[Blowboy]

heh, well thanks a lot, my teacher didn't told me that. I learn more on a weed forum than in college:)

[robert42]

ermitonto knows his shit props to you sir

[Roadking]

"For millions of years mankind lived just like animals
Then something happened which unleashed the power of our imagination
We learned to talk"

- Stephen Hawking
(Keep Talking- Pink Floyd)

Something happened....which unleashed the power...

Genesis 2:7 ?

???

[Roadking]

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[Roadking]

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[beachguy in thongs]

:confused: :confused: :what:

[Roadking]

lol...short circuit?

[ladyM]

:D I saw a documentary on History Channel International that said most of our "English" language is derived from French, not Latin as most would think.
Many languages have similar words, my sister-in-law is from Italy and can make out quite a bit of Spanish. I on the other hand hear anything other than plain English and my eyes glaze over and I am completely lost.
Heres my word though, conchdubidderflick.
I hope its not a for real word to someone somewhere where I'm saying something I shouldnt, maybe it has something to do with killing flies? lol

[mellow mood]

yea french owns lol


lol jk

yes french comes from latin, and english comes from french, so english comes from latin. but i guess latin was just invented by ppl that wanted to talk. so they just found any names like this.

[ermitonto]

:D I saw a documentary on History Channel International that said most of our "English" language is derived from French, not Latin as most would think.
Well, that's true to an extent. English has tons of French words, but actually it derives from Proto-Germanic, a language once spoken in northern Germany and Scandinavia, which gave rise to German, Dutch, English, Norwegian, Swedish, Danish and Icelandic. But when the French invaded England in the 11th century, they brought thousands and thousands of words into the language, and as Latin was the language of the educated classes for many centuries, lots of Latin words found their way into the language too. The result is that if you count all the words in the dictionary, most of them are French or Latin in origin. However, all of the most common words are still Proto-Germanic words. Function words like "the", "you", "and", "what", and most words for everyday things like "house", "grass", "water" and "man" are Germanic in origin, but less commonly used words like "concept", "religion", "language" and "science" come from Latin and/or French (it's often difficult to tell which since French is simply an evolved form of Latin).

Latin, however, was not just invented from scratch. It developed from an even earlier language, Proto-Indo-European, which gave rise to the Germanic languages, Greek, the Slavic languages, most of the languages of northern India, and many more.

[KoRnStaR]

whenever i'm high, i end up creating words at times, that don't exsist...and i always ask some one if that word i just used even exsisted..kinda cool

[beachguy in thongs]

Plus ca change plus ce la meme chose. :stoned:

[ermitonto]

Plus ca change plus ce la meme chose. :stoned:
Sorry to nitpick, but it's Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose.

[beachguy in thongs]

Ah, I don't have those keys, you're right, I forget the c'est.

[OzzyOz]

have any of you ever heard of the word...

Ass-Goblin

i belive the O is pronounced softly as in (aww)

[beachguy in thongs]

ass-gob·lin (s-gbln)
n. pl. ass·gblns (sz)
1. Any of several hoofed mammals of the genus Equuselfin , resembling and closely related to the grotesque horses but having a smaller build and longer ears, and including the domesticated donkey thought to work mischief or evil.
2. A vain, self-important, silly, or aggressively stupid person.

[STDzRus]

How did they come up with basic words like "The" "how" "did" "they" "come" "up" "with" "basic" "words" "like"

Huh? "huh?"

[beachguy in thongs]

THE-Middle English, from Old English the, alteration (influenced by , th-, oblique case stem of demonstrative pron.) of se, masculine demonstrative pron.; see so- in Indo-European roots.
HOW-Middle English howe, from Old English h; see kwo- in Indo-European roots.
DID- Past tense of do DO-Middle English don, from Old English dn; see dh- in Indo-European roots.
THEY- Middle English, from Old Norse their, masculine pl. demonstrative and personal pron.; see to- in Indo-European roots.
COME-Middle English comen, from Old English cuman; see gw- in Indo-European roots
UP-Middle English up, upward and uppe, on high, both from Old English p; see upo in Indo-European roots
WITH-Middle English, with, against, from, from Old English; see wi- in Indo-European roots
BASIC-BA-Bachelor of Arts, bathroom, batting average, British Academy, Buenos Aires, the symbol for the element barium, abbr. Bible; Baruch

SIC-Latin sc; see so- in Indo-European roots.]
WORD(S)- Middle English, from Old English; see wer-5 in Indo-European roots
LIKE- Middle English liken, from Old English lcian, to please; see lk- in Indo-European roots.
HUH-huh (h)
interj.
Used to express interrogation, surprise, contempt, or indifference.

[STDzRus]

Now explain every word you just typed. :stoned:

[beachguy in thongs]

Middle English
n.
The English language from about 1100 to 1500.

Old English
n.
1. The English language from the middle of the 5th to the beginning of the 12th century. Also called Anglo-Saxon.
2. Printing See black letter.

In·do-Eu·ro·pe·an (nd-yr-pn)
n.
1.
a. A family of languages consisting of most of the languages of Europe as well as those of Iran, the Indian subcontinent, and other parts of Asia.
b. Proto-Indo-European. Also called Indo-Germanic.
2. A member of any of the peoples speaking an Indo-European language.

past tense
n.
A verb tense used to express an action or a condition that occurred in or during the past. For example, in While she was sewing, he read aloud, was sewing and read are in the past tense.

Old Norse
n.
1. The North Germanic languages until the middle of the 14th century.
2.
a. Old Icelandic.
b. Old Norwegian.

[STDzRus]

sweet!

I'll pay you 20 dollars a day to my personal dictionary.

[beachguy in thongs]

"I'll pay you 20 dollars a day to my personal dictionary."

I don't understand the offer... :smokin: ... :stoned:

[Roadking]

I was having dinner with my wife awhile back at a rustic kind of place in Vermont when a party of about fifteen youths and a couple of adults came in. They were seated at a row of tables and the waitress brought menus.
'Oh great' I thought...'there goes my peace and quiet. these kids will be yelling and throwing food before you know it.' I was convinced they would be loud and obnoxious.
After some time had passed, I realized that the noise level in the place hadn't risen much in decibels. When I looked over at their tables again, they were using sign language. They were all obviously deaf.
So, what is language anyway?

If you smile at me
I will understand
Because that is something
Everybody everywhere does
In the same Language

Crosby, Stills, Nash
(Wooden Ships)

[lateralus]

Well, I only bothered to read the first post, but most words in modern languages are direct descendents of the languages that preceded them. I believe English is composed mostly of Latin and German. Look at the similarities between many of the words in Spanish, and their Latin equivalents. I'm not sure how a language evolves into another language, but I assume it is due to regional slang, mispronunciations, accents, and the like.

This is eerie; many threads that've been popping up are the very things I've been wondering about lately. :eek: