Kinda a thought that pops into my head from time to time about if people that lived well before writing wanted to leave an eternal legacy and at best we see their remains dressed in ornaments.
It’s interesting to think that someone that lived 50k years ago paved a path for me in the sense that they probably exploded lands weren’t known to their tribe or human at the, found new edible plants, or maybe created a new tool.
Crazy to think that there’s billions of humans that I contributed to the life I have know and their names have long since been lost to time and that what I do today can still affect someone well into the future
I just like to imagine there was a real person called Unga Bunga though. It seems statistically likely. Or some guy named, like, Andrew or something, but with absolutely no linguistic ties to any of the modern name’s roots, like it arose independently more than once.
If the name “Naomi” can occur independently in Hebrew and Japanese, it’s probably been popping up regularly since the beginning of language.
Naomi is the crab of names
Lol like Andrew meant star puncher in ancient language that no tale or legend can recall.
It used to mean “land exploder” in the before-times.
Considering we’ve been around for about 300,000 years, it’s within the realm of possibility.
“Long” is interesting. It’s an English surname, but there’s also Chinese people called “Long” as it means “Dragon”
FYI: 龙 is not pronounced “long” lmao
you do not pronunce the pinyin as if it were an English word
It’s got different tones, I know that
None of the 4 tones of the pinyin “long” even sound like “long” in English. I mean the “o” does not represent the same sound.
Sorry if I sound like I’m trying to start a debate for no reason, but as a native Mandarin speaker, it kinda triggers my OCD xD
Lóng… Long… It sounds very similar