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Is "ma" Proto-World? (Re: Re: Comparison of philosophicallanguages)

From:Nik Taylor <yonjuuni@...>
Date:Wednesday, January 22, 2003, 12:27
"Bryan Maloney " wrote:
> From my experience, "abba" and "adda" come before "mama". Drives my > wife nuts when all three of the kids were going > "dadadadadadadadadada!" long before they tried anything that sounded > like "mama".
:-) There was a couple at my church where the wife insisted that their son was just babbling when he said "dada", but as soon as he said "mama", she insisted that he was actually saying the word. :-) -- "There's no such thing as 'cool'. Everyone's just a big dork or nerd, you just have to find people who are dorky the same way you are." - overheard ICQ: 18656696 AIM Screen-Name: NikTaylor42