Who gets to name all of the stuff?
December 12th, 2006
Have you ever wondered who named bread “bread” and chocolate “chocolate?” Me too. Who was so powerful that they were able to make an entire language that billions of people would eventually learn. It’s not like when you’re in second grade, and you don’t want the girl that stole your crayon to know you’re talking about her, so you make up some crazy words that don’t make any sense. Who are these people is that created English, and French, and Spanish, and German, and all those languages are, and who made them the dudes who got to go around making up all of the words that everybody in the entire world would use to communicate with? That’s not fair! Okay, so lets say that these people were chosen, how did they come up with the word bread? Or computer? Or Garden? What, did they just write down some letters and say, “Behold, a language.” It’s all very confusing if you ask me.