Just kicking around ideas about language
1 2018-09-29 by Yellowtag1
I find it fascinating how language has been manipulated over the eons. Makes me wonder about the power of the spoken word. Studying language and etymology i realize that things are exactly what we say they are regardless of whether we realize it or not. A couple examples:
Mortgage - death promise Bless - to mark with blood Christmas- messiah/ kristos dismissal Human- God man
Anyone else have any good ones?
26 comments
1 tiberius_regulus 2018-09-29
They don't call it spelling for no reason ;). I always found the Swiss-German language very interesting. It's not a written language only a spoken language. Been that way through it's history. Same with quite a few other ones.
They have one language in which they talk to each other in and another one in which they write to others in to communicate outside. That's high German. Seems ideal for self preservation and defending oneself. The cabal is headquartered in Switzerland but damn they got so many things right. Brilliant as fuck if you think about it.
1 dano4201 2018-09-29
This is fun, I like this. I always thought convince seemed quite nefarious - Borrowed from Latin convincō (“I refute, prove”), from con- + vincō (“I conquer, vanquish”).
1 ignoremsmedia 2018-09-29
Democracy - From Demos ( Greek ) meaning "Mob Rule".
1 Malugel 2018-09-29
Demos means The People.
1 ignoremsmedia 2018-09-29
“democracy” (demokratia, δημοκρατία) gave Rule (kratos, κράτος) to the Demos (Δῆμος). Demos (pronounced “day-moss”) has several meanings, all of them important for Athenian democracy. Demos is the Greek word for “village” or, as it is often translated, “deme.” The deme was the smallest administrative unit of the Athenian state, like a voting precinct or school district. Young men, who were 18 years old presented themselves to officials of their deme and, having proven that they were not slaves, that their parents were Athenian, and that they were 18 years old, were enrolled in the “Assembly List” (the pinax ekklesiastikos, πίναξ ἐκκλησιαστικός) (see Dem. 44.35; Aristot. Ath. Pol. 42.1).
1 djh315 2018-09-29
Where does that say mob rule?
1 ignoremsmedia 2018-09-29
Can you even search the internet or read between the lines?
1 djh315 2018-09-29
I can, but it seems like you’re trying to refute the poster above you who have the correct translation.
1 ignoremsmedia 2018-09-29
Definition of Etymology
1 : the history of a linguistic form (such as a word) shown by tracing its development since its earliest recorded occurrence in the language where it is found, by tracing its transmission from one language to another, by analyzing it into its component parts, by identifying its cognates in other languages, or by tracing it and its cognates to a common ancestral form in an ancestral language
2 : a branch of linguistics concerned with etymologies
1 djh315 2018-09-29
Lol
1 ignoremsmedia 2018-09-29
ROFL!
1 MerlotHaggard 2018-09-29
Bruh. Check out Laurel Airica. You'll flip your goddamn lid.
1 zipperlt 2018-09-29
It's been a while since I update a txt file with the names of non mainstream researchers/investigators of interest. Laurel Airica definitely belongs there, thanks!
1 MerlotHaggard 2018-09-29
She's definitely a profound individual and her take on language is a trip. Enjoy!
1 zipperlt 2018-09-29
Was thinking about starting a topic about it for months too. I am not native english but here is what I find weird:
Morning - sounds too much like Mourning. Every day we go "Good mourning" to each other lol.
Hello - Hell(o)
Wellcome - Well - hole in the ground, also Vel means devil in some EU languages, essentially we are saying Devil Come.
Good Day - Good Die
Nice to meet you - Nice to meat you - sounds a bit canibalistic
Thank you - sounds a bit like Fck you.
Apology - something to do with Apollo god may be.
Will post more if I remember.
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1 Malugel 2018-09-29
Those words mean nothing like you claim.
1 psypher5 2018-09-29
Alot of our common words celebrate death.
Say namaste as a greeting instead :)
1 zipperlt 2018-09-29
I am super pleasanly shocked. Having looked into the meaning of Namaste = it matches some of my (Lithuanian) language.
As = I = Aš
Te = You = Tu
Nama = Bow (Namas in Lithuanian = House)
Very interesting, could you please point me in direction of more words/language related to where "namaste" comes from. Thanks!
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1 psypher5 2018-09-29
Sanskrit? I'll look into it later :)
1 ShoulderGroove 2018-09-29
Is this the word association game
1 pepe_silvia67 2018-09-29
Read Foucalt. He talks about these same ideas.
1 psypher5 2018-09-29
Soldiers are sold to die. His story goes down in history.
1 swordofdamocles42 2018-09-29
spellin and cursive...
1 murphy212 2018-09-29
Also “liberty” comes from liber , i.e. “book”
In Latin languages the words “book” and “free” are essentially the same.
1 Vrylic 2018-09-29
You’ll enjoy this one
http://omnithought.org/secret-hidden-agenda-of-language-why-words-are-magic-spells/4809
1 m010101 2018-09-29
Language, in general, is how you perceive the world. Which is a fancy way of saying you cannot be smarter than your language. We are imprisoned by it.
1 ignoremsmedia 2018-09-29
Definition of Etymology
1 : the history of a linguistic form (such as a word) shown by tracing its development since its earliest recorded occurrence in the language where it is found, by tracing its transmission from one language to another, by analyzing it into its component parts, by identifying its cognates in other languages, or by tracing it and its cognates to a common ancestral form in an ancestral language
2 : a branch of linguistics concerned with etymologies
1 psypher5 2018-09-29
Sanskrit? I'll look into it later :)