Every language

[bebe heart]

Thanks for trying to understand, Esgaleth and everyone who replied. To me, in life, there is only everything/everybody's thoughts and emotions, nature, and the one who created the universe, which is god.

Is everything okay with you? You sound lonely or confused with something. Am I right?

 

[bebe heart]

No, I'm saying we might (have came) from one parent and we started to use different languages after spreading, in my mind.

Shouldn't it be, " have come "? Inside the brackets.

 

[Tdol]

Shouldn't it be, " have come "? Inside the brackets.

Yes, it should.

 

[mawes12]

Is everything okay with you? You sound lonely or confused with something. Am I right?

I'm ok. Actually I'm young and with a family so I don't think I'm really lonely and even if I was lonely, I think I would be good. Why do you say that?

I'm probably confused though.

Yes, it should.

Why? I thought it should be past tense after modal verb, 'have'.

 

[bebe heart]

I'm ok. Actually I'm young and with a family so I don't think I'm really lonely and even if I was lonely, I think I would be good. Why do you say that?

I'm probably confused though.



Why? I thought it should be past tense after modal verb, 'have'.

I thought you might be lonely, from the way you asked questions about the universe and languages.

 

[mawes12]

I just wanted to know what other people think.

 

[mawes12]

Sometimes I feel like when we talk we think we know what we're saying. I also feel people get stressed because of words and simple things and because of that, some people are confused and not accepting. If all of you don't understand what I'm trying to say, you can tell me.

 

[mawes12]

Maybe you guys will be interested about http://www.livescience.com/51766-is-this-how-language-evolved.html if y'all still watching this thread.

 

[konungursvia]

I think it's helpful to view the birth of language as the development technology, with each new word being a new tool. You might imagine that different populations might develop bone knives or wooden spears independently, in slightly different ways; you might also imagine a particularly good design being shared, traded, or spreading to other places. So it probably was with words, and even grammatical strategies: some things radiated from a source at some centre, other things sprung up independently. So all languages are neither sisters nor strangers, but likely something in between.

 

[mawes12]

But I think they still don't know how it started and they are just imagining how it started. Don't you think there are a lot of words for one thing?

to me, 'develop' means 'create' or 'make'.

 

[emsr2d2]

Have you considered that there are some things we will simply never know?

 

[mawes12]

Have you considered that there are some things we will simply never know?

I said what I said because I didn't want people to get confused if they thought the other people knew how it started.

 

[emsr2d2]

I think, after 6 pages of comments, we can be fairly sure that no one knows the actual answer!