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  Spot on with your analysis friend, minus the acid lol
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  If someone else had instead of us, it would be kinda awkward. >
  
  Well if you religious thennnn
  Edit: whoever down voting suck my dick, if you religious then God named you or whatever they believe >
  
  Language is still a man-made construct. >
  
  Actually depending on religion that can vary xD     Biblically speaking, I think around the time of the Tower of Babel, God made man speak a multitude of languages or something like that so they would no longer be able to work together to complete the tower. Sorry if I'm wrong y'all, I haven't read the bible much lately :/ >
  
  So it was in God's will that we not understand each other? >
  
  In that story yes. We were trying to build a tower to heaven. God didn't want us to make it up there. So he made different languages right then, so the people couldn't work together anymore. To be clear this is the story that made me realize Christianity was bullshit as a child, but I'm still interested in the Bible and its stories. >
  
  This is pretty much enough to me that I can just write all of Christianity off as insane. Why didn't God interviene again before we made it to space. Weve already gone past the clouds and witnessed what is out there. >
  
  Im gonna regret this comment and getting into the mud with you but the majority of Christianity specifically Catholicism sees the Old Testament as an allegory. The story of the Tower of Babel has no more factual truth than any other story that tries to explain where languages came from. The religious part comes in when you try to find a meaning in the story
  You can write Christianity off as insane but at least understand what you’re fighting against first lol >
  
  imagine aliens in a sci-fi show calling humans Binoculi because we have two eyes
  "hey you called us hexapods, it's only fair" >
  
  And we really only succeeded in doing that for English speaking Humans. >
  
  Yes! I call myself Humano >
  
  We call ourselves människor, meninshoes pretty much. >
  
  Haha you just opened the eyes of one of the manboxes on the other side of the border (Norway, mennesker) >
  
  Here in Denmark we also call ourselves mennesker >
  
  Just don't ask what the rest of us call you >
  
  The brain named itself. Or did it. Who is doing the thinking 🤔 >
  
  We named names. We named everything. Words aren't real guys. Ever concept is just meant to be a useful way of communicating about something. What those words refer to changes as time goes on and we learn more. >
  
  "We juss a cuppa eyeland boyz" >
  
  What is the etymology of Human?
  In my language, we say "Children of Adam" >
  
  It came via Latin humanus - humus which came from a proto-indo european word for earth, meaning an earthling. Which also seems very biblical if you think of Genesis. >
  
  In Lithuanian, which is one of the oldest surviving indo-european language in relatively unchanged form, a word for human is 'žmogus', which is related to 'žemė'- earth. So earthling or the one who walks on earth. 
  The interesting part of it - the original word had masculine and feminine forms - žmogus(male) and žmona(female), but 'žmogus' remained to be used in its original sense, while 'žmona' became a word used for 'wife' - a married woman. In other words, someone, sometime in a distant past decided that a woman must marry if she wants to be a human. >
  
  Adam comes from the Hebrew word "adama", which means "earth" or "soil" >
  
  So does that means different animals have different names for us or they also call us humans???? >
  
  I think most dogs call themselves "Woof" but it's hard to verify >
  
  For dogs, it is probably a smell that means dog. >
  
  Frito toe smell >
  
  The english speaking world has named themselves human and ”mankind” which is a bit weird to my ears to be honest. But looking into the etymology seems like the word human originally comes from the homo and humus. Homo meaning man and humus meaning earth. 
  In finnish the word is ”ihminen” which is very old but looking into the etymology reveals the word to possibly have connections to the words for air and miracle. History of possibly connected languages reveal that there are words closely resembling ihminen that have meanings such as creature, stranger, guest and woman. >
  
  No, i named myself pappy. Some dead english bastard named yall humans. >
  
  In my dialect human means finish, and I think that’s nice. Either we’re the finished product of evolution or we’re the ones to finish life on Earth.
  Well, that’s all. Human’na ko. >
  
  In arabic, it's "إنسان" (Ensan), derived from the word "نسيان" (Nesyan) which means forget, or forgetting, because humans forget. >
  
  No, انسان comes from the root ا-ن-س while نسيان comes from the root ن-س-ي theres no relation >
  
  So what does it mean >
  
  Humans >
  
  This is a dumb thought.
  We named everything. Everything that has a name is some combination of sounds we decided on. >
  
  Well, what else would you call those who represent humanity? Fyi, we called everything what they are called. Birds ain't inventing words for shit?
  To add further: our planet is called "Dirt". Sure, you can call it Terra to sound cool, but guess what? Still means dirt. We are good at naming things. Such creative monkeys we are, yes indeed. >
  
  Terrans, we're Terrans. Terra would be our oldest name of our planet; Earth. So if the sumerians did speak with the 'sky people' as they claimed. We would be Terrans; people of Earth. 
  So to the aliens we'd be Terrans >
  
  Today, a young man on acid realized that all matter is merely energy condensed to a slow vibration, that we are all one consciousness experiencing itself subjectively, there is no such thing as death, life is only a dream, and humans named ourselves.