Jumping on the UpGoer5 Thesis Bandwagon.
Based on dr_whom andophblekuwufu the 1000 most common words version of my thesis.
A long time ago before there was writing, people told stories over and over again. Those stories must have been really really good, right? Maybe it wasn't that they were good, but that there was SOMETHING all of those stories had that made them like each other. Trying to know what that is, some people listened to a lot of stories told to music, by people who can't write, and now we can tell by looking at the words if a story was from someone who can write, or if it's from before that.
There's this one really good really long story about a fighting man that we actually have written down, but because of when it is from (700 to 1000) and how it is written, we think it is pretty much the same kind of story as from before there was writing. People used to speak this story, maybe to music, before some guy, maybe a guy who liked god a lot wrote it down.
I talk about one way this story is like a story that was told to music over and over again, a way that has to do with making the people hearing the story feel like they are in the story. A lot of this is about what the people hearing the story know about the words in the story, and sometimes it happens when the people in the story are telling stories themselves -- because when you're hearing someone tell a story, and they start talking about a guy telling a story, you go "Hey, I know what it's like to be told a story!" so you feel closer to the people in the story that the guy in the story is talking to.
It isn't always that simple, but many things are kind of like that. To figure this out, I had to look at a lot of the ways people turn the really old words in this story into words we understand, and the things those words would have meant to people back when the story was being told, instead of what they mean to us now.
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A long time ago before there was writing, people told stories over and over again. Those stories must have been really really good, right? Maybe it wasn't that they were good, but that there was SOMETHING all of those stories had that made them like each other. Trying to know what that is, some people listened to a lot of stories told to music, by people who can't write, and now we can tell by looking at the words if a story was from someone who can write, or if it's from before that.
There's this one really good really long story about a fighting man that we actually have written down, but because of when it is from (700 to 1000) and how it is written, we think it is pretty much the same kind of story as from before there was writing. People used to speak this story, maybe to music, before some guy, maybe a guy who liked god a lot wrote it down.
I talk about one way this story is like a story that was told to music over and over again, a way that has to do with making the people hearing the story feel like they are in the story. A lot of this is about what the people hearing the story know about the words in the story, and sometimes it happens when the people in the story are telling stories themselves -- because when you're hearing someone tell a story, and they start talking about a guy telling a story, you go "Hey, I know what it's like to be told a story!" so you feel closer to the people in the story that the guy in the story is talking to.
It isn't always that simple, but many things are kind of like that. To figure this out, I had to look at a lot of the ways people turn the really old words in this story into words we understand, and the things those words would have meant to people back when the story was being told, instead of what they mean to us now.
Try yours at http://splasho.com/upgoer5/