leibowde84
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Why do you keep on refusing to answer people's questions directly? Answering questions with more questions is flat-out disrespectful.
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Atheists: If there's no God, then where did the word "God" come from?
- Thread starter paarsurrey
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It can be an English word if you want. Many languages borrow words from each other. I'll even give it a definition:
Bonwonk (verb) - To repeat oneself again and again about the same subject matter day after day.
Bonwonker (noun) - A person who bonwonks.
I have an old textbook that speaks to something about a scenario like this. To quote:
Evolutionary Analysis said:
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paarsurrey
Veteran Member
Let us see when it is included in The Oxford English Dictionary: 20 Volume Set and CD-ROM [With CDROM] , Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary (Book & CD ROM) , Chambers Dictionary , etc, etc. Kindly inform them of the new word. Please
Regards
It doesn't have to be in the dictionary for it to be a word. If it did, then that would mean that words did not exist until dictionaries were invented. Then how could you invent a dictionary without words? It's a contradiction. If you really want to see invented words ending up in dictionaries, then try Urban Dictionary.
jonathan180iq
Well-Known Member
Humans could neither create an atom nor a word both are work of God , in real sense.
Regards
P.S.
atom (n.)
late 15c., as a hypothetical indivisible body, the building block of the universe, from Latin atomus (especially in Lucretius) "indivisible particle," from Greekatomos "uncut, unhewn; indivisible," from a- "not" + tomos "a cutting," from temnein "to cut" (see tome). An ancient term of philosophical speculation (in Leucippus, Democritus), revived 1805 by British chemist John Dalton. In late classical and medieval use also a unit of time, 22,560 to the hour. Atom bomb is from 1945 as both a noun and a verb; compare atomic.
http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=atom
Science has borrowed it lately from language as it has no language of its own.
Bonscruptle - The feeling of sheer astonishment at the unwitting foolishness of another person.
Usage: "He really bonscruptled that post, didn't he?"
I just invented a new word, and I'm an atheist... So your argument is now invalid.
paarsurrey
Veteran Member
jonathan180iq
Well-Known Member
There were 1,000 new words or phrases added to the Oxford English dictionary this past year...
http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/us/words/what-s-new
Did God create the word "manspreading" about men's seating positions on public transport 3,000 years ago? I don't think so...
http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/manspreading
Words are added to dictionaries simply because they are found to be used among people. The entire evolution of human language is based on this fact.
If you and I agree that the sound, "UGH" means "rock", and if that agreed upon meaning is used by more and more people to mean the same thing, then we would have created a new word. Please read some more about the origin and development of language before you try and continue with this argument - for your integrity's sake.
Lots of people have asked questions of @paarsurrey in this thread. His inability or unwillingness to answer speaks volumes about his reasoning and his intentions. His unwillingness or inability to provide the same kind of proof for his own OP assertions as he demands of everyone else also speaks volumes about his reasoning and intentions.
I had forgotten why I stopped paying attention to his posts; now I am reminded. I will henceforth not bother with him ever again.
Ouroboros
Coincidentia oppositorum
There are many words that are not included in those dictionaries. Most of them explain why this is so in their preface. For instance many of them don't include slang or technical terms like LAN (local area network) or chemical names of molecule and such. A dictionary tends to focus on the basic language only.
Aquitaine
Well-Known Member
Checkmate, Atheists.
leibowde84
Veteran Member
So, you admit that humans coin/create new words, then? And, why would it matter if it's in that specific dictionary?
Could you explain the argument?
Demonslayer
Well-Known Member
Can you even use the term "reasoning" when talking about someone who's argument is "if there is no God where did the word God come from?" I don't think any reasoning is involved at all. I've heard a lot of unsatisfying, silly, and downright ridiculous arguments for God, but this may be the absolute worst one I've ever heard.
I was using reasoning in the sense of the pattern he uses in an attempt to find support for his usually ridiculous assertions. He has a very specific pattern for this. His "reasoning" is to make an assertion, wait for responses, ask for further responses to questions, act polite (please and regards in most every post), demand levels of evidence that are inappropriate in kind or degree for the subject at hand, select sentences and sometimes phrases out of others' statements, and eventually to abandon the thread once he has collected enough of these statements to support his position. As well as collecting frubals whenever he can get them. This is his pattern of reasoning, his way of winning arguments. That everyone else is trying to play by the more-or-less rules of rhetoric and debate is irrelevant--that isn't how he's playing.
Perhaps; but I have said as much directly to @paarsurrey before, and consider my last couple of posts to be directed to him, as he has invited this public debate on this topic, and I would say no different if we were on a formal debate stage, face to face.
And I plan for this post to be the last I make to or about Mr. Paarsurvey and any of his topics or responses.
Demonslayer
Well-Known Member
I know I was being sarcastic, I obviously find his assertion as ridiculous as you do.