>tfw we will never know the name of the hominid that invented fire

well obviously his name was "fire"

how else did we get the word "fire" for fire?

>rubbing things randomly together

Was it autism?

reminder. some tribes of Australian Aboriginals forgot how to make fire. They could only maintain naturally occurring fires. Some of them forgot how to wear clothes.To others, agriculture was setting fire to whole forests. So more desirable plants would grow back.

>>3125795
I'd reckon it would be your mum, she's definitely ancient enough

>>3125795
>implying fire was invented rather than discovered by accident after lightning hit a tree

>pushing on plastic buttons randomly to communicate with one another over thousands of miles away
Autism?

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>>3125798
>see fire occur naturally
>shits hot yo
>other animals seem to be afraid of it
>try to replicate it
>realise that alot of heat is needed to start it up
>rubbing stuff produces heat
>start rubbing shit together near plants
>eventually through trial and error figure it out

and then some opportunistic asshole says it was actuely a god or spirit that did at makes a new religion

>>3125796
>having language
>having English language

>>3125795
t:adam

>>3125795
Homo Igneus

Dayvon, the first ebonoid from the Ebonoid galactic empire who stepped upon earth utilizing a melanin powered stargate prior to the creation of white cave people.

>>3125806
Cool, give me a single source

What about the guy who first made a wheel? He enabled civilization (most of them anyway).

>>3125795
>tfw we will never know the name of the hominid that invented fire
>name of the hominid that invented fire
>invented fire
what the fuck is this meme, nothing invented fire in the same way nothing invented water, it's a naturally occurring phenomena

>>3127876
How can you possibly not understand what they're talking about? They're talking about the first guy who figured out how to MAKE FIRE, not just take it from somewhere and keep it going but actually create it, by rubbing sticks together or whathaveyou.

Yes I know that's not precisely what they said but people do that, we all speak imprecisely sometimes when it's clear from the context what we mean, and acting like you don't understand isn't clever, it's stupid.

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>>3127898
>"We should all pretend that words do not have definitions and simply use whatever words we believe should go in a part of a sentence."

>>3127898
Discovering and creating are quite different

>>3127939
Obviously. I'm not sure what your point is.

>>3127907
"Contextual" isn't the same thing as "arbitrary." Language is contextual. If you don't like it, go learn lojban, and have fun speaking it with the three or so people who'll speak lojban with you.