by DiAnn Mills @DiAnnMills
Our ancestors struggled to develop language and communication skills. I imagine the beginnings of those grunts were emotionally motivated.
- Ugh! A dinosaur is coming.
- Ah. The scent of a spring morning.
- Mmm. The food smells good.
- Ohhhh. I hurt
Over time, words grew out of necessity and a need to communicate effectively. Sounds and meanings were emotionally connected then and are today. The sound of a word doesn’t necessarily tell us what it means, but we can project to the listener what it means by the way it affects us emotionally. For example, a mother tells her baby who doesn’t have a grasp of language “No.” The emotion the mother uses shows her baby the negative connotation of the word.
