+123 Sometimes you wonder what was the first word spoken by a human, and how did people long ago come up with the names to name things, amirite?

by Anonymous 11 years ago

father and mother are the "formal" terms but in pretty much all languages ma and da and ba (mama, dada, baba) is used for parents *call their bottle "baba" in English baba is used for father in some places and they're easier for babies to pronounce something like that this relates to the post because people want their kids to say "mama" or "dada" as their first words turns out dada is easier to say so fathers can no longer rub it in the mothers' face or say that the baby loves them more and the baby is usually just babbling and has no idea what he/she said but seeing the parents so happy reinforces him/her to repeat the same syllable(s) most babies like to seeing their parents happy happiness is an instinctual emotion I believe

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Interesting. I wonder what they be thinking. Do they think like, "Ba ba de da ma" or do they actually make words in their thoughts that they just don't know how to form into words?

by Anonymous 12 years ago

they just string together random syllables depending on the language they loose certain things like in Japanese the double r and double l there is no differentiation (might be wrong about this) so Hello become Herro and think about Arabic Pepsi become Bebsi there is no P sound in Arabic eventually, I think the the babies realize an order in the syllables even a deaf baby who has deaf parents or hangs around a lot with deaf people will pick up on hand signals and start to make recognizable signs the deaf babies usually give up babbling with their mouth because no one really reinforces it (the parents can't hear the cooing and whatnot) I don't know exactly what they think haven't gotten that far and I don't know how far others have gotten

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Haha, suppose not. It was part question-I-was-asking-myself and part rhetorical. Perhaps we will never know hmm Unless somewhere deep in the future someone invents some kind of machine that can read people's thoughts...

by Anonymous 12 years ago

developmental psychologists (and dev. scientists?) try to guess the thoughts based on reactions they think a baby remembers something when they get bored with a stimulus like if you show them a toy it's novel to them they stare at it long show it to them again they get bored and won't look at it the toy is no longer novel if a certain time period passes (hours, days, etc) you show that same toy again and they get bored quickly it's assumed that they remember this toy or else the baby would have looked at it a long time thinking it was a novel thing I also edited that other comment if you wanted to see

by Anonymous 12 years ago

That's quite interesting. Probably more along the lines of memory and recognition, which goes along with dianectics (a set of ideas and practices regarding the metaphysical relationship between the mind and body) and engrams (a presumed encoding in neural tissue that provides a physical basis for the persistence of memory; a memory trace.)

by Anonymous 12 years ago

ohh I don't recall hearing those terms before so it's pretty new to me is that something you're into?

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Yeah, kind of. It's from the church of scientology but really interesting. It talks about how we have something called the reactive mind that records every single painful emotion or incident that we've felt, and the analytical mind which records every single day of our lives, and that's why some people can remember up to the day they were born. Really deep.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

so is there like a method to trigger that? because I kinda wanna remember my first few days of life on Earth because I know babies have blurred/terrible vision and recognize their mothers through sound and smell

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Yeah, there's this process called auditing to help people relieve themselves of those painful moments so the pain can no longer be a burden to them or hold them down. Some people have gotten to their last painful moment, which was birth, and actually visualized themselves being born and they actually went through it over again in their minds. I can't tell you much though, I've only watched the dvd, which was about 12 hours long (I didn't watch it 12 hours straight). I have seen a couple of people that were considered to be "reborn." There was one man that was so happy and jocular like he didn't have a care in the world. His spirit was just so amazing.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

wow that's really interesting I don't know if I wanna try that anymore though wary don't wanna get scarred for life my mom told me how I had to get this huge bump on my arm lopped off you can still see the indent and we were in a place that doesn't have that numbing stuff (anesthesia?) so I went through it RAW and I don't remember this I would gladly keep it that way

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Yeah, it is. I guess we all have something we wouldn't want to relive.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

The first humans, or even humanoids, may have had utterances that could be considered "words" - I always guessed they were related to warnings of danger, but I would not be surprised to find out they were related to mating rituals.

by Anonymous 12 years ago