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Article 7200 of comp.ai.philosophy:
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SF/*In article <1aqirgINN5u9@smaug.West.Sun.COM> dab@ism.isc.com (Dave Butterfie
SF/*writes:
SF/*|mhf4421@usl.edu (Flynn Matthew H) writes:
SF/*|The origin of the word "mama" (and its close relatives in other languages)
SF/*|appears to contradict that statement.  "Ma" is one of the easiest syllables
SF/*|to utter, and is one of the first spoken by infants.  The first entity that
SF/*|
SF/*This is, at most, a trivial, isolated exception.  Even the unquestioned
SF/*existance of a number of 'sounds-like' words ("woof", "boom", "moo") in
SF/*most languages does not constitute a significant contradiction to the
SF/*basic statement:

<pedantic mode ON>

"sounds-like" words are "onomatopoeic" words.

<pedantic mode OFF>

 Andy ~ london ~ uk                        andy.liddiard@almac.co.uk
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