Eli5: How did we invent words? What makes words to be considered a certain meaning?
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Probably by imitaing sounds.
You see a mammoth, you rund excitedly to the rest of the tribe point in the direction and make trunk trumpeting sounds.
You do this everytime you see one and it becomes less important to make a realistic sound, you make a sound that is reminiscent of trumpeting, but easier to do.
No little Booga spots a mammoth. He runs back to the tribe and since he’s seen you do it a dozen times, he makes the same sound.
Everyone in the tribe knows what that sound means by now. You invented a word.
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