So I am faced with a dilemma: I have an idea but I don't know how to accurately describe it.
And now I'm going to describe my dilemma with a sort of paradox. What if there are literally no extant words to describe a feeling or thought? I imagine most people would argue that any concept can be reduced to language. So that is to say that our language has progressed to the point that it can be applied to every possible thing in existence. So when an idea is created, when does the language catch up to that idea and become a useful tool? Humans did not *suddenly* gain awareness and ideas. It has to be a progression unless there is a God that imbues all ideas to humankind.
Maybe it's a kind of compression. Maybe ideas had to be described with several hundreds of words until a word was engineered to represent it. The idea gets compacted into one all-encompassing word. Let's use a mundane example like "racist". If someone calls me racist, I know immediately all of the implications of that word. I imagine there had to be a time when someone would have to call me a "person who hates people of different colors for no apparent reason" instead. And even then, there would have to be a time before that when someone would have to explain that hate is related to being in a state of anger and what the fuck a reason is. So let's just call it a compression. Language makes things efficient. It's a tool that we use to get our meaning across with little effort. So I would speculate that long ago, ideas were harder to express and they were elusive. So conversely, it's possible that our current system of ideas will compress even more and lead to new, undiscovered ideas. Ideas that are unfathomable.
And this is the idea I wanted to express...
So this is my attempt to make a point out of no real concrete evidence. It's just fun speculation. I should really take a linguistics course.
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