Re: Language based on interjections

Andreas Johansson scripsit:

> Which, apart from everything else, begs the question if there's
> ever been a kind of eagle big enough to threaten an adult hominid?
Very unlikely.  Here's a picture of a bald eagle
(Haliaeetus leucocephalus) attacking a 3-year-old child:
http://image.guardian.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/gallery/2001/08/23/eagle.jpg
The child's father had no trouble rescuing it.

The biggest bird that ever flew was probably less than 20 kg, which is
why those stories of eagles flying away with lambs are just ridiculous:
their wing loading won't support such a mass.

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