Who invents certain words?

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

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Originally Posted by 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.

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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.

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

ermitonto knows his shit props to you sir

"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 ?

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lol...short circuit?

: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