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To: Russian Sage

"If I remember the figure correctly, with any two unrelated languages, 40% of functional words will sound roughly alike."

Maybe all languages are related at some level. Huh? (also, how many different combination of sounds can a human make?)

19 posted on 06/25/2004 7:05:54 PM PDT by blam

To: blam

Before or after the Super Bowl?

22 posted on 06/25/2004 9:16:18 PM PDT by Old Professer (Interests in common are commonly abused.)

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