CRIMSONxSOLDIER

(Idk if this is in the right forum, but......)
Well My buddy texted me and asked if i wanted to go smoke, and of course i was like "hell yeah". So I told my dad i had to go help him study () and we (my buddy and i) met up at my park and smoked my bong. I came back and did some stuff and sat down here and then the high hit me. I started thinking about a bunch of weird shit and one of those things that particularly stuck out was how....all of the Languages in the word, and in history...are like...related or something. (Lol forgive me, in EXTREMELY HIGH lmao) Like they're weird and related because like..(oh god this is hard..) if you think about what we all think of like neanderthal languages and shit..How they dont make sense to us and how they're really weird, with the grunts and like ooga-ooga shit, lol. Well the english language and every other languages is like exactly like that, yaknow? Like if you think about it how we talk and shit is just a movement of vocal chords so like Ooga-oooga isnt like any different than "Cornbread". It's just a different movement. I guess the real difference between us and them is our ability to produce more effective sounds? But why bother if you already had a vocabulary of Grunts and Oogas then why bother to make a new one or try? Idk man.

WEiRd SHiT

Idk dudes but im reallllly fucking stoned and my brain is thinking up a whole bunch of crazy shit like this.

Edit: Wow I was really fucking stoned when I submitted this, lmfao. Yeah I guess the basic concept of this is relating our modern languages compared to what we think of the neanderthal languages and how, if you actually think about it, they're related. All our languages have the same exact concept, just a movement of vocal chords, different pitches, and whatnot. But the difference is that as we evolved we came up with new ways of thinking and speaking. It's just weird to think about how there are so many different laguages in the word and that, techincally, they're all the same exact thing -- "grunts and oogas". =)

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Killerchron

Very high indeed crimson

I get what you are saying kinda, but you may want to come back at a later time and edit some of these ideas

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SpiralArchitect

Language is a very strange concept. The communication of ideas through words.



Ever heard of the Stoned Ape Theory? Interesting stuff.

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Herbal Meditation

I've had this feeling too, and the same goes for culture, architecture, art, and physical appearance.

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Trocisp

Point of Clarification: We don't actually know what the 'cave man' languages were. We've never heard them. We can only assume that they're grunts and hard consonance, because they didn't have the physical structures we have and use in our vocalization processes. They could have, however, used different sounds, or even sounds that are completely outside our range of hearing (which is relatively limited, as animals go).

Comparative linguistics - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Historical linguistics - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

I think you'll like those, they fit in with the thread topic. Be warned, however, that when you get into the African ans Sub-Saharan Languages, that the ideas of [click]-consonance origin are more mixed than most in linguistics. A very, very vocal minority of the Linguistic community believes that the [click] traces back to the root of all human language, where the generally accepted theory is that it developed very early on in a relatively isolated Area of Africa, which is why it isn't so far spread, but still has ancient origins.

loki

Language is endlessly intriguing to me. Just listening to the vernacular of people in different situations and people from different regions and backgrounds can produce such a clear picture of people. The way someone talks (and the way two people communicate!), in all aspects of what that entails, defines moods and moments. Which is why I still can't get over an essay I read a few years ago by Jonathan Safran Foer. First of all, I had read his books, and in those he also captures an incredible amount of the core of the human spirit in the way he uses language, portraying much more than words in communication. In this particular essay, A Primer For the Punctuation of Heart Disease, he uses new punctuation marks in dialogue to portray the emotions behind different silences and what goes unsaid or said in a different way than how the words are to be interpreted. It is beautiful, but I have lost it and cannot link to the entire essay.
Actually, I'm sorry this has little to do with the original post, other than that the way people communicate today is only an evolution and regional, societal, and historical muddling of how they did in the past, just the same as the actual words we use are.