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From: hubey@pegasus.montclair.edu (H. M. Hubey)
Subject: Re: Speculation: First word?
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Date: Mon, 31 Oct 1994 23:45:22 GMT
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jbm@newsserver.trl.oz.au (Jacques Guy) writes:

>mcv@inter.NL.net (Miguel Carrasquer) writes:


>>This question was adequately answered by pharaoh Psammetichos.
>>The first word was "bekos", `bread', in Phrygian.
>>Read Herodotus 2.2.

>Nope, beg to disagree, it's adequately answeered by Proto-World
>*ana = "hole", hence "womb", or perhaps the original white hole
>from which the Universe emerged

You seem to postulate that familial relationships outweigh
pangs of hunger :-)..

I think the first word must have been something like; OUCH! or
"flea"; maybe the same word for both.

--
						-- Mark---
....we must realize that the infinite in the sense of an infinite totality, 
where we still find it used in deductive methods, is an illusion. Hilbert,1925
