Does anyone ever wonder how people came up with names of people, cities, .......

[Raineyrocks]

countries, street signs, words in general, etc?


Also has anyone ever thought, "hey maybe that RV I just passed on the road might have been won on The Price is Right?



Just curious!

[Lloyd Danforth]

All the time!

[Raineyrocks]

All the time!

Me too!

[J’raxis 270145]

countries, street signs, words in general, etc?

Nope, because it's easy enough to look up nowadays, on things like Wikipedia. The origin of words even has a field of study surrounding it called etymology.

[Raineyrocks]

countries, street signs, words in general, etc?

Nope, because it's easy enough to look up nowadays, on things like Wikipedia. The origin of words even has a field of study surrounding it called etymology.

Whoa!  Parts of that wikipedia page are interesting, other parts are so confusing it makes me want to keep wondering!  Thanks J'raxis that was neat!

[Pat McCotter]

Not to be confused with Entomology, the scientific study of insects, which sometimes erroneously includes the study of spiders, the proper name of which is Arachnology.

[Raineyrocks]

Not to be confused with Entomology, the scientific study of insects, which sometimes erroneously includes the study of spiders, the proper name of which is Arachnology.

[K. Darien Freeheart]

I'm fascinated by language in general, so I tend not to wonder long. I look it up if it matters, and wonder no more.

Kalamazoo, for the record comes from Potowatami "Kikalamazoo" and describes the river in that area. "Kikalamazoo" mean something like "mirage" or "false image" or "reflection" or "the images you see in the vapor of boiling water".

[Raineyrocks]

I'm fascinated by language in general, so I tend not to wonder long. I look it up if it matters, and wonder no more.

Kalamazoo, for the record comes from Potowatami "Kikalamazoo" and describes the river in that area. "Kikalamazoo" mean something like "mirage" or "false image" or "reflection" or "the images you see in the vapor of boiling water".

Wow, that's pretty neat!

[K. Darien Freeheart]

Wow, that's pretty neat!

One of my particular fascinations with language are concepts that don't exist in English. "Umami" is the kind of sharp "tangy" flavor you taste when you eat a chunk of cheddar cheese. There's actually a word in German for that phenomenon that once you hear a name or a new word, you suddenly start hearing/reading it EVERYWHERE. I forget what that word is, but next time I come across it, I'm writing it down!

[sandm000]

Wow, that's pretty neat!

One of my particular fascinations with language are concepts that don't exist in English. "Umami" is the kind of sharp "tangy" flavor you taste when you eat a chunk of cheddar cheese. There's actually a word in German for that phenomenon that once you hear a name or a new word, you suddenly start hearing/reading it EVERYWHERE. I forget what that word is, but next time I come across it, I'm writing it down!

Synchronicity?

[doobie]

The word 'fish' came from the fact that 'fishing' is the act of hunting fish.   

[K. Darien Freeheart]

Synchronicity?

Synchronicity might apply to the phenomenon, but it's not actually the "name" of it, if that makes sense. The word I'm thinking of is quite specific to that event. "Exhilaration" would loosely describe both skydiving and driving, but "farfegnugen" is only descriptive of the thrill you get while driving. It's one of them kinda words.

[Raineyrocks]

The word 'fish' came from the fact that 'fishing' is the act of hunting fish.   

Whoa!  You blew me away with that on Doobie!  I would have never put 2 and 3 together!


The word 'run' came from the fact that 'running' is the act of oh nevermind, I can't think of anything good!  I'm down on my "game" this week.

[J’raxis 270145]

Wow, that's pretty neat!

One of my particular fascinations with language are concepts that don't exist in English. "Umami" is the kind of sharp "tangy" flavor you taste when you eat a chunk of cheddar cheese. There's actually a word in German for that phenomenon that once you hear a name or a new word, you suddenly start hearing/reading it EVERYWHERE. I forget what that word is, but next time I come across it, I'm writing it down!

Would that happen to just be Bestätigungsvorspannung?