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jimcrichton
· 8 years ago
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Yes, but there's a problem with ostensive definitions. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indeterminacy_of_translation
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deleted
· 8 years ago
I've always wondered who was the first person to speak with words. I mean, did one day a guy who speaked with growl and such thougt "fuck it, imma make words" I WANNA KNOW
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lane6
· 8 years ago
Basically people associated sounds with things and they eventually became the words we know today
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cate
· 8 years ago
Nooo.. Now i'm going to think about this all night
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napewno
· 8 years ago
Some hundreds of years ago people thought that you are born with the knownlegde of their homelands language, so the nobles shipped children of countries like France to get themselfs cheap tutors, to their schock the children spoke only the language of their surroundings.
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moon
· 8 years ago
I've always wondered this!!
guest
· 8 years ago
The book "Don't Sleep, There Are Snakes" describes some of the processes as a missionary/linguist went to live with a tribe where neither of them spoke each other's languages. There's a lot of extensive note taking and testing out theories of whether something meant what he thought it meant by using it in different contexts and so on.
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