Re: Baby Babble Early Human Language?

Marcus Smith wrote:
> Some of these are clearly possible, but others (to say, guy) are insane.  With
> this kind of semantic latitude, anything could be related to anything.
>
> They have given "mathematical proofs" that the odds of these resemblances
> actually occuring are too small to be due to accident, but even their math is
> bad.
Mark Rosenfelder has a rather interesting essay on that very topic:
http://www.zompist.com/chance.htm

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