Who invents certain words?

[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.

mellow mood Reviewed by mellow mood on 10-29-2005. 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

[ermitonto]

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.