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Ok I'm drunk can anyone explain how a word becomes a word? How the fuck is it made

>> No.9851053
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>> No.9851056

'Names by themselves may be empty, but the act of naming...'

>> No.9851062

They ask Bob Dylan for new words every year

>> No.9851063

In old days, a retarded person was beaten with logs and then set on fire. The noises they uttered were recorded and then meaning was aside to him based off how much he shit his pants.

>> No.9851067

>>9851053
Is this magic

>> No.9851072

Is it just evolutionary telephone?

>> No.9851083

>>9851045
When Aleph created the world, he named all things - or, depending on your version of the story, saw all things already named.
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>> No.9851088

>>9851045
Look at anything in the room you're currently sitting in. The curtains, for example. Make up a work for what the curtains are called. The windizzles, for example. Start calling them windizzles. Get your family to call them windizzles. Eventually get your friends to call them windizzles. Eventually everyone in the area are now calling curtains, windizzles. And so on, and so forth.

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>>9851067

>> No.9851114

>>9851088
Everyone start calling pens frindles

>> No.9851117

>>9851045
The layman will tell you imitation of reality (the sound of the word "white" is soft, the sound of the word "black" is harsh, bleak).

Then the linguist will tell you about metaphors, metonymy and all those things.

Also buy an etymology dictionary.