(September 12, 2023 at 7:35 am)Gawdzilla Sama Wrote:(September 8, 2023 at 7:26 am)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: The oldest noun in English is ‘might’, as in the use of force against other people.The language had no nouns before "might" came along?
Boru
That’s a silly question. Kind of like saying, ‘If Joe is the oldest man in the world, does that mean there were no men in the world before Joe came along?’.
Boru
‘But it does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are twenty gods or no gods. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.’ - Thomas Jefferson