Timeline for How could a language that uses a single word extremely often sustain itself?
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| Oct 11, 2020 at 20:05 | comment | added | Robbie Goodwin | How is that a Question for Worldbuilding, rather than Language or Philosophy? There, the Question would be technical. Here, it's not… it's linguistic or philosophical, perhaps anthropological or cultural… Either way, if you can't yourself imagine such a language; how that could come to be; how it could survive or be sustained then what's the point? Why not instead ask about a language where most whites were green? | |
| Dec 17, 2016 at 16:49 | comment | added | A. I. Breveleri | @Tezra: I am Groot | |
| Oct 29, 2016 at 19:25 | comment | added | Ryan Griggs | I forgot to add "and, uh". | |
| Oct 29, 2016 at 19:24 | comment | added | Ryan Griggs | Like, it would just, like, be like, OK. Like, doh. | |
| Oct 29, 2016 at 14:00 | answer | added | Peter Lac | timeline score: 1 | |
| Oct 29, 2016 at 11:40 | comment | added | gnasher729 | @fr13d: The first 33 words in "Four weddings and a funeral"... | |
| Oct 29, 2016 at 1:46 | comment | added | Doktor J | Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo. | |
| Oct 28, 2016 at 20:17 | answer | added | Megha | timeline score: 1 | |
| Oct 28, 2016 at 15:04 | comment | added | Tezra | The problem is that 1 word can only convey so much meaning. Slang is created to express complex ideas into a new short word/phrase. Because humans are lazy, it is inevitable that new words (like selfie) will be created, slowly killing off your 'key' word. You might need to make the society highly bureaucratic about linguistics so that it resists natural 'evolution'. | |
| Oct 28, 2016 at 12:40 | answer | added | Pete Kirkham | timeline score: 3 | |
| Oct 28, 2016 at 10:57 | comment | added | frIT | Modern popular media and informal, ever-day conversation would sometimes make one think that the 4-letter f-word beats "the" hands down... | |
| Oct 28, 2016 at 9:43 | comment | added | Burgi | Obligatory XKCD link: xkcd.com/1007 | |
| Oct 28, 2016 at 9:34 | answer | added | Anik | timeline score: 0 | |
| Oct 28, 2016 at 9:25 | comment | added | yankeekilo | Scientific take: Chicken chicken chicken. | |
| Oct 28, 2016 at 6:23 | answer | added | Artelius | timeline score: 1 | |
| Oct 27, 2016 at 23:15 | answer | added | brichins | timeline score: 2 | |
| Oct 27, 2016 at 20:11 | comment | added | atakanyenel | You can take a look at Orwell's 1984 and how the newspeak is constructed | |
| Oct 27, 2016 at 19:19 | comment | added | user26892 | By smurfing, that's how. Smurf else? | |
| Oct 27, 2016 at 17:18 | vote | accept | Remi.b | ||
| Oct 27, 2016 at 16:53 | answer | added | BRPocock | timeline score: 5 | |
| Oct 27, 2016 at 15:47 | comment | added | PermanentGuest | I thought it was all too easy seeing this video ;) : youtube.com/watch?v=FUoRp2VsBH0 | |
| Oct 27, 2016 at 13:34 | answer | added | J.J | timeline score: 2 | |
| Oct 27, 2016 at 12:13 | comment | added | ratchet freak | like, what if like there is like a major like quirky verbal tick like adding like a ton of like the quotative like that like got global like infection. | |
| S Oct 27, 2016 at 3:19 | history | mod moved comments to chat | |||
| S Oct 27, 2016 at 3:19 | comment | added | Monica Cellio | Many comments, including examples of this kind of usage, have been moved to chat. Please use comments to improve the post, and take other discussion there. Thanks. | |
| Oct 27, 2016 at 2:59 | answer | added | user2163438 | timeline score: 0 | |
| Oct 27, 2016 at 2:05 | answer | added | Dennis | timeline score: 9 | |
| Oct 26, 2016 at 16:18 | history | edited | TrEs-2b |
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| Oct 26, 2016 at 13:43 | comment | added | cobaltduck | Tangentially related, not dup: worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/q/51725/10851 | |
| Oct 26, 2016 at 11:15 | answer | added | NoDataDumpNoContribution | timeline score: 6 | |
| Oct 26, 2016 at 7:32 | answer | added | Stig Hemmer | timeline score: 8 | |
| Oct 25, 2016 at 21:43 | answer | added | Cort Ammon | timeline score: 6 | |
| Oct 25, 2016 at 20:47 | answer | added | Daevin | timeline score: 5 | |
| Oct 25, 2016 at 20:28 | answer | added | user22613 | timeline score: 42 | |
| Oct 25, 2016 at 19:21 | comment | added | David Richerby | Note that Wikipedia's "be" includes all parts of the verb to be. In particular, if you add "is" to your ngram, you'll see that it's about twice as common as the literal word "be"; "was" is also slightly more common than "be". ngram for the/is/was/be | |
| Oct 25, 2016 at 17:46 | answer | added | Mołot | timeline score: 51 | |
| Oct 25, 2016 at 17:28 | history | edited | Remi.b | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Oct 25, 2016 at 17:26 | answer | added | TrEs-2b | timeline score: 95 | |
| Oct 25, 2016 at 17:13 | answer | added | o.m. | timeline score: 14 | |
| Oct 25, 2016 at 17:05 | history | asked | Remi.b | CC BY-SA 3.0 |