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With the word "Word" being capitalized in your sentence, I'm afraid I can't expound on it any differently than is found in John 1:1-5 KJV of The Bible. Now if the word "Word" had not been capitalized, I could have talked on it all day long. I love words. I love to put them together. I adore a good dictionary. I love word games, reading how you put your words together to write stories for us. I wonder what might have been the very first word uttered.
posted by
TAPS.
on January 13, 2015 at 11:13 PM
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Pat
My understanding was that, actually, in the beginning was a thought.....and then a picture.....somewhere in there came a sound to represent the picture.....picture(s) began to represent not just items/people, but actions....and language, written and spoken, developed around the world in bits and parts....seems there have been debates, as always, on timelines, etc.....but it all sounds basically logical. Still so amazing....and humbling....looking back....
posted by
Krisles
on January 13, 2015 at 9:32 PM
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How true that is.
posted by
Amanda__
on January 13, 2015 at 7:07 PM
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That is right.
posted by
FormerStudentIntern
on January 13, 2015 at 4:19 PM
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Re Pat....
So....a very wise woman started marking the days it took for the sun to reach it's longest stay on earth...washing the world with life giving light.
Other people of her cave grunted and pointed and scratched their heads or /and their backsides wondering what it meant.
The wise woman wondered how to explain to this great unwashed mob .....inspiration came when she pointed to the marks and to the sun and said...Counting!!! And the Word was born.
posted by
Kabu
on January 13, 2015 at 2:16 PM
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Is this kinda on the same level as "the chicken or the egg" argument? Hey, someone had to start jotting things down at some point . . . 
posted by
JimmyA
on January 13, 2015 at 12:58 PM
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I guess someone began to scratch on bark, Brum, wumun me boz wumun jusy. Something like that,
posted by
C_C_T
on January 13, 2015 at 7:36 AM
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Pat
Of course not - there was no writing! 
posted by
Nautikos
on January 13, 2015 at 6:04 AM
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