Laodamas

In the beginning was the name; or, one supposes, that has always been the way of things. When was it anyhow that we started giving them to one another? Or taking it for oneself, perhaps the way one would a pelt or tanned hide, to ward off the cold of the sparse tundra onto which we finally came down from the trees to walk, or the chill of anonymity? ::chuckle:: What must it have been like to have grunted the first guttural sounds that would have been interpretable as — “‘LOOM’. This is me.” (pointing to, or thumping, one’s chest)… or, “LARK. That is you.” (pointing at the face or head of one’s mate or companion or child). Yeah… the first ones would have been monosyllabic, I think. The hominid imagination in language would needed to have evolved some ways first, until it got to nomens like LEYON or LAGOS or… LUMEN.* Let alone something like LEYONID, or… LYCANTHROPUS. That last one would have taken quite a while of evolving time, I think. Yes. (* “Lumen” happens to be the name of my…