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Old 01-21-2010, 01:01 PM   #5
housemouse2
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Default Re: EMERGENCY - Word Alchemy

language is traced back for generations.

Our language can be traced back to: Indo-European which has 9 basic branches.

Indian, Iranian, Armenian, Germanic (modern English branched from), Celtic, Albanian, Balto-Salvic, Hellenic, Italic. More branches come from there.

This doesn't include such languages as:

Native American
Chinese
Japanese


Though emergency is a English word evolved from emerge which low Latin which means to come from, such as a rose coming up from the ground, emergency has a very different meaning as to a sudden occurrence.

Yes, "emerge and see" is a cute play on words and has some anchoring validity but doesn't seem to be a hidden meaning to me but rather a natural progression in language and meanings coming from basic words.

In the same context that there is never an "original" idea the same can be said for words. Each word evolves from another. Same as ideas evolve from other ideas.
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