Re: Baby Babble Early Human Language?

>From: Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...>
>Have any of you clicked on the link nearby, the "Caveman words", at
>http://www.discovery.com/news/briefs/20000420/misc_babtable.html ?  It
>gives the following "protowords":
>
>AJA -- mother, older female relative
>BUNKA -- knee, to bend
>BUR -- ashes, dust
BULLSHIT -- this whole list.  (Pardon me; I meant bull-PAL.)  Did Patrick
Ryan have anything to do with this?  Jeez, this reminds me of the Nostratc
list I recently left...

Seriously, there was some very dubious -- but somewhat interesting --
apologia for the MALIQ'A root.  This

>CHUNGA -- nose, to smell
>KUAN -- dog
>MALIQ'A -- to suckle, breast
>MENA -- to think
Here, let me make a sentence out of these words:

I MENA that Discovery Online's list CHUNGAs so bad a KUAN won't eat it, and
these so-called "researchers" really MALIQ'A.

</cynicism>

Danny
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