[New post] Where do words come from?

Janet Carr posted: " This is a discussion my students and I have fairly often. Who names things? And how does everyone know what they are called? For example, who decided that a table would be called a table? Why did we listen to them? And how do we ALL know it is a ta" New post on https://thisbugslife.com Where do words come from? by Janet Carr This is a discussion my students and I have fairly often. Who names things? And how does everyone know what they are called? For example, who decided that a table would be called a table? Why did we listen to them? And how do we ALL know it is a table? And who named the colour brown? Do we all think of the same colour when we think of brown? If we learn a word, do we learn the word or the world around us? In Swedish a window is a fönster, and in Afrikaans it is a venster. In Engish it is a window and in Norwegian it is vindu. How did that happen? Janet Carr | November 9, 2021 at 12:25 am | Categories: Culture, Vocabulary, Words | URL: https://wp.me/p1SUNB-Vji Comment    See all comments Unsubscribe to no longer receive posts from . Change your email settings at Manage Subscriptions. Trouble clicking? Copy and paste this URL into your browser: https://thisbugslife.com/2021/11/09/where-do-words-come-from/