[blam]

GGG Ping.

[Ciexyz]

"Ema" is mother in Hebrew, "aba" is father.

[Abcdefg]

Somebody needs to get back on their meds...

[Abcdefg]

Were the Frenchmen cunning linguists?

[tophat9000]

However, other linguists have argued that "papa", "dada" and "mama" are common in many languages simply because they are the first noises made by babbling babies.

If "papa", "dada" and "mama" were only common in languages because they are the first noises made by babbling babies... then the meaning would tend to random I.E. Papa and Dada would be found to mean Mother as often as Father and conversely Mama would be found be Father as often as Papa and Dada

If they are found to have a fixed meaning in most languages I.E. Mama as seem to always be for Mother Papa and Dada always is Father…. The would point to a common language root

[SunkenCiv]

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[PBRSTREETGANG]

Yo quiero papas fritas.

[EggsAckley]

"Origins of Language and Psychosis"

Psychosis??

[Hatteras]

In North Carolina it's "Diddy".

[ThanhPhero]

in Vietnamese mom is me- pronouncet like "mat" without the "t". Dad is "ba."

[festus]

One of the first words to be uttered by Stone Age babies was probably "papa", according to scientists

This is what passes for science these days ? Sigh.....

Cut public funding for science. Cut public funding for arts. Cut public funding period.

[SunkenCiv]

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