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We will never know the name of a human that lived 50,000 years ago
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I just like to imagine there was a real person called Unga Bunga though. It seems statistically likely. Or some guy named, like, Andrew or something, but with absolutely no linguistic ties to any of the modern name's roots, like it arose independently more than once.
"Long" is interesting. It's an English surname, but there's also Chinese people called "Long" as it means "Dragon"
FYI: 龙 is not pronounced "long" lmao
you do not pronunce the pinyin as if it were an English word
If the name “Naomi” can occur independently in Hebrew and Japanese, it’s probably been popping up regularly since the beginning of language.
Lol like Andrew meant star puncher in ancient language that no tale or legend can recall.
It used to mean "land exploder" in the before-times.