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Why ‘Mom’ and ‘Dad’ Sound So Similar in So Many Languages: Linguistic Coincidence?
The Atlantic ^
| 10/16/2015
| JOHN MCWHORTER
Posted on 10/16/2015 7:54:15 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: StayAt HomeMother; Ernest_at_the_Beach; decimon; 1010RD; 21twelve; 24Karet; 2ndDivisionVet; ...
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10/17/2015 3:59:19 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(Here's to the day the forensics people scrape what's left of Putin off the ceiling of his limo.)
To: Wilderness Conservative
I thought dog in Chinese is called dinner. In Chosŏnmal Korean, tree bark is called dinner.
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10/17/2015 4:07:53 PM PDT
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COBOL2Java
(I'll vote for Jeb when Terri Schiavo endorses him.)
To: SeekAndFind
I’d rather eat homecooked English food than anything from the Orient.
To: beaversmom
RE: I’d rather eat homecooked English food than anything from the Orient.
That was an Irish joke by the way.
To: SeekAndFind
No, to steal the conquered people’s food. Imagine a country with such bad cooking that men would rather spend a year or more at sea.
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10/19/2015 4:51:03 AM PDT
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1010RD
(First, Do No Harm)
To: COBOL2Java
Lies. Everyone knows trees don’t bark. They leave.
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10/19/2015 4:55:47 AM PDT
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1010RD
(First, Do No Harm)
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