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Message Subject Ready for your mind to be blown? Check this out.... The Golden Web
Poster Handle Anonymous Coward
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The narrator is making up his own meaning of words by arbitrarily breaking them down however he sees fit. He says the 'au' from 'audio' signifies gold simply because au is the abbreviation for gold on the periodic table??? That's not the etymology of the word.

audio
[link to www.etymonline.com]
-comes from the Latin term audire, meaning 'to hear'

Why is he doing such things? Does that mean the 'he' from 'hello' signifies helium??? Of course not...
 Quoting: ANHEDONIC
I agree. Why should I watch this? At the very start he relates Phoenicians to sound (phonics), but looking at the term 'Phoenicia' in Greek it means 'land of purple', a reference to the valuable murex-shell dye they exported.

Phone is another Greek term for 'sound'. They sound similar, but I'm guessing there's nuances involved which give them different meanings.

I could go on writing for hours - the word 'language' he breaks it up and takes the 'lan' part to mean some Oriental beast or something. You could do that with any word in any language - find homonyms and synonyms and some exacts same words.
 
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