Who invents certain words?

[beachguy in thongs]

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

beachguy in thongs Reviewed by beachguy in thongs on 10-27-2005. Who invents certain words? how were words like: cock or computer or codiene or anything really named? how do they think of a name? Rating: 5

[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

[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

[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.