WORDS a differant meaning!

[Arcanus]

Kevins post on words made me think of this idea i think about quite a bit. What if everything was differant. Like ok dogs for instance. Do you think dogs understand us and meanings of words? If you "TRAIN" a dog to sit. I dont think that dog knows what sitting is..all he knows is that when he hears "sit" hes spose to put his butt on the ground..cause that's what you trained him to do. You train a dog to shake..it doesn't know what that means..he just knows that he's spose to lift his paw in the air..or in your hand. Are humans like this also. I mean i believe dogs might have some understanding. But are we trained in this same way. I mean think about it..If you had a child and ever since that child was born... you said "sit" and made the child stand up..or even worse changed colors and so forth around...taught the kid that black was red and so forth. I mean words are just words that have been drilled into our heads. You could really mess stuff up. Tree door shoe blanket cloud purple hair fingers pants. means please lock the car door when you go outside. Bad example but you took just some words and taught a child they meant something completely differant..like instead of you eat with a fork and a spoon..you eat with a mouse and door. and instead of catch the mouse and close the door you said catch the fork and close the spoon..in that childs mind when they wanted to eat they would say can i have a mouse to eat with please..and ew theres a fork on the floor kill it kill it..get it? just wierd i thought.

[Scott]

I get this way when it comes to Pokémon. I say Scizors instead of Sci... however they are spelled. I replace things like I turn Goosepimples into Zangoosepimples. I say Butterfree instead of Butterfly. Just to name a few.

When I was younger I used to say Shaq instead of sh**, and replace other words too. I use the word wanker instead of the other word for it! (or like on Drew Carey Show "That's 'Pen IS' you moron!")

What if a car was called a hat? or a mailbox was called an outhouse?

[kevblah]

Yeah words are like windows to use to look at the world to me. They let the world in but they only let it in a certain way, meaning its not the same as when you think or feel something exactly, its hard to exactly put things into words. But without the window you can't focus on anything by itself, everything blends together more when youre outside, without words. So you need the words or the windows to look at something specifically. But we also need to sometimes use words in different ways that make sense or make different words, to cover all of the ways that a person can see something or experience it.

[Arcanus]

i think you guys are missing my meaning here. i'm not talkin about changing the meanings of words or anything. i'm talking about the words being totally differant all together. maybe read the first post again?

[kevblah]

Well I know there are some languages all based around clicking sounds or other noises we would have a hard time telling the difference between. But anyone who grew up speaking it speaks it well. They have even been able to make the symbols of this language, just have to figure out the different sounds then you have a written language. I'm sure you're right about that a person can grow up with a different language than the people around them outside the house, its just like an immigrants child learning a combination language/two languages maybe, only this one would only be that one child.  

The hard part though if you learned different words than everyone around you is that everyone can't all learn your language, and no one else would know it. So how can you talk without the same words? You would need to relearn language or to find another way like with hand signals, body language.. it's interesting to think about.