cladking Wrote:
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> The speakers didn't know it was "science" and had
> no word for "science" since this is another
> abstraction and there were no abstractions
> whatsoever in Ancient Language. If we could
> communicate with them they would call it a
> manifestation of "thot" or in their words a "face
> of thot" whom was "human progress".

It just occurred to me another entire classification of words that were absent in Ancient Language and is part of the reason their language breaks Zipf's Law; synonyms.

In our language "manifestation of thot", "face of thot", "human progress", "science", and many many other words all mean the same thing. But AL didn't have even one word for "science" because they had no abstractions. They had no synonyms at all because every word was representational and no two identical things exist. They had non-abstract words that were scientific or related to their scientific method.

It might be interesting to google images for "reflections in eyes".

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Man fears the pyramid, time fears man.



Edited 3 time(s). Last edit at 01/10/2021 11:44AM by cladking.