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To: Virginia-American
If a similar sound has a similar meaning in two languages, it's either a coincidence, a borrowing, or an inheritance.

Or onomatopoiea.

1,217 posted on 04/25/2006 12:41:17 PM PDT by Right Wing Professor
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To: Right Wing Professor

Or onomatopoiea.

thanks, I shouldn't try this sort of thing from memory.


1,218 posted on 04/25/2006 12:46:47 PM PDT by Virginia-American
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grotesque incomprehensible unpronouncable bookmark


1,222 posted on 04/25/2006 1:41:00 PM PDT by King Prout (The UN 1967 Outer Space Treaty is bad for America and bad for humanity - DUMP IT.)
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