"Everyone's" Language

A long, long , long.. time ago.

Every one spoke the same language..
I wish it was still like that.

So like , in ancient caves of today and other ancient place with markings that only a few people can decode & understand , no one would be clueless of
what happened that era.

But then again that would take cultural meanings out of some cultures .

But that would be great , just a thought.

 

ok

 

Lol ^ you're a very funny person.

 

i'd harken a guess that there were probably more varied languages the farther back you go into history.

i'd bet there were 10s if not 100s of different languages in only a small swath of land. after small villages began domesticating animals and harvesting crops languages melded into what we have today. some lost forever, some became something else.

 

I heard this :
"Long time ago humans had only one language. God punished them because of their bad behavior and He gave each group it`s own language. As the time passed by, groups soon became nations, and each nation had it`s own language."

http://thetruth-blog.blogspot.com/2010/09/why-do-we-speak-so-many-different.html

I don't know if it's a myth or not to you..

 

it's obviously a myth. "GOD punished them"

science and religion don't mesh well, young padawan

take Africa for example though. Bantu language is relatively similar in structure and some vocabulary, but there are hundreds of dialects of Bantu depending on where in Africa you are at.

Same goes with French. There is French, there is Quebecois, Patois, Créole, as well as dialects found in Vietnam, Africa and parts of South America.

Language is fluid, it started from the most basic necessary communications in which each tribe or small collective could relate to, and as they ran into more and more tribes and grew bigger as individual communities, their languages flowed together.

In the Americas you could have 10 different Native peoples living in the area of one state and each have a different and particularly unique language.

English is very visible in this. Much of our vocabulary is built off Latin, which is why we see similarities with other Latin-based languages. At the same time, we have adopted a lot of French and Germanic words into the English language as well

 

except for buddhism strangely enough

 

i heard that it rained for 40 days and 40 nights and some random guy made a boat and put 2 of every single animal in the world on it.

 

i heard that some guy killed his son because god told him to.

 

:toilet:


:lurk5:

 

that's because buddhism doesn't overtly sublimate your mind and tell you that you are a sick piece of shit and you should be sorry for it, otherwise you won't ever reach salvation and never be redeemed in the eyes of god...

 

Why is this turning into a religion debate

 

God sux 666!!!

 

Slang exists for a reason: people like talking in ways that other people can't understand.

There are a lot of hispanics that enjoy speaking spanish in an english dominant culture because they have more privacy and can talk more openly.

"Universal language" would be fractured. language wants diversity.

 

exactly.
we don't eat the same food in the midwest as people do on the coasts (typically).

like why we call crawfish crawfish, or crawdaddies or crayfish. all the same thing, just different locations

 

i also heard that a naked woman named Eve caused menstrual cycles.. but that's besides the point

 

But what if the culture was the same , but just the same language ? :afro:

 

language is a part of culture. you can't have differences in one without differences in the other, humans just don't work like that.

 

Every time I think I should respond to something in this thread, Purp beats me to it.
Bang on, dude. :cheers2:

 

There's always a "what if " though .
Never doubt the "what if's " :afro:

 

i only entertain hypothetical scenarios when they pertain to fucking coworkers or who would we eat first in a survival situation

 

Oh... well , that's no fun

 

it's a whole lot of fun, actually. DON'T TELL ME I'M WRONG!!!!!

 

:hide: You're right... right ?