Mike Nasty
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I already know King isn't what's on their birth certificate, but we could argue for days about it.
When did Blk ppl get so corny at naming their children ?
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We can use the popular Singer Sade as an example, if you Speak Yoruba. You would know her full name Folasade directly comes from fi-ọlá-ṣe-adé (crown with honor)
Words have meaning, and meanings have power, this isn't something that was crafted out of thin air. This is something that took over a millenia too cultivate and likey for good reason as it shows the cultural and historical backing of said culture/language. Words and Numbers go hand and hand. Any linguistics or pure math professor will tell you this. Math being "made up" has now real world uses.
GoPinheiro
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Not completely true. Afeni Shakur, Kanye West, Kwame Brown, Taye Diggs, Ashanti Douglas, Kenya Moore, Zuri Hall, Zola Taylor, Mandla Morris, Sekou Smith, Mandisa Hundley, Ntozake Shange, Shaka Toney etc are not French sounding names or Arabic sounding names. These are African names. And if you notice, most of these people were born before or around the 70s/80s.
Something made up over centuries doesn't have any more right to exist than something randomly made up yesterday.
Just because you have a Tradition doesn't mean it deserves eternal honor and deference. There are entire languages lost to time and history and people are still doing just fine in spite of it. 1000 years from some entitled ados descendent in the future could be spewing the same nonsense about Laquavious
No but it provides a foundation a very real foundation that can transform a society. Use that same logic and apply it to math, and see how far it gets you. People who do pure math will tell you it actually helps them when studying languages because the necessary building blocks are the same.
Damn some of these are people I haven't heard about in almost 15 yrs
Math is a science, not a culture. 1+1 will always = 2 No matter how differently we approach the equation.
Culture on the other hand is simply a social contract. Contracts can be enforced. and they can be broken and replaced with a new one.
60 years ago Karen was the number 1 most popular name for women. Its ranked 823rd now and falling. simply because we decided to change the meaning.
and we can do that with any name's meaning.
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Me and you are coming from 2 different angles. I'm not talking about the name I'm talking about language as a whole. For a society to function basic communication is needed and that is language. How that language now forms will tell us what type of society it is. Some cultures use literal coordinates to give direction (instead of left they might south west 2 clicks from you) you can probably guess it would make them really adept for navigation. To say it doesn't matter or that is made up with no meaning is like saying math doesn't matter or that it is made up with no meaning. The video below even shows language learning and math learning go hand in hand
shyt sounds like a dope ass Transformer.
That nikka transforms into a Hellcat
MajesticLion
Veteran
Make-work and posturing.
Mastering language and understanding the etymology of names are critical.
Mastering language and understanding the etymology of names are critical.
The Pledge
If it’s a lie, then we fight on that lie.
Naming kids like they’re The Sims characters
The fukk, man.
The fukk, man.
Elle Seven
Superstar
I think that might be "God" but I could be mistaken.
