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I wonder if there are languages where this question doesn't make much sense, because, say, both invention and discovery translate to the same word just meaning
by alanbernstein 7y ago
I wonder if there are languages where this question doesn't make much sense, because, say, both invention and discovery translate to the same word just meaning "creation".
- cmonnow 7y agoNo need to wonder. English is that language. Tomorrow I can come up with a new word called 'oogabookga' which means invention/discovery/creation, and then make enough people accept it so it makes it into the dictionary, and then 20 years later, 2 other folks like us will argue about the semantics between oogabookga and invention and discovery. That's exactly what happened with invention/discovery 20 (or 200) years ago, and we are those 2 people now.