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Humans tend to use the same sounds for common objects and ideas in all languages
- triplesec 10y agoOriginal title, 'A nose by any other name would sound the same, study finds', was uninformative, so the first paragraph provided the replacement.
- triplesec 10y agoNot that anyone's looking, but here's a strong critique of this methodological approach by a linguist(icist?): http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=4685 http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=4685