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It can also be said that noises have no significance in and of themselves. A noise is just a noise, just as a piece of wood hitting another is just that, one piece of wood hitting another. However, when a judge hits his mallet against his desk it is accepted he is calling the court to order. How then are these sounds assigned meaning? Unlike in Mark Twain's "Diaries of Eve" someone has not gone around naming animals and objects for us. It has been argued that words are assigned meaning "by virtue of systematic differences between them" and only have significance "through relations through one another in a symbolic system" or language. Arbitrariness, however, does not always mean that every time a new or different concept is conceived a completely new word, made up of a unique set of sounds, is necessary. Someone working in a bank is a banker, someone working in a bakery is a baker, and similarly the wing of a plane was carried on from wing of a bird. Just because similar words have related meanings does not take away from arbitrariness, indeed if you said wing to a sub-Saharan tribesman, he would have no idea what you were talking about.
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