Your comment needs to be first. The author is stretching the evidence so far here. I hope the Hacker News audience understands that this article is presenting a

Your comment needs to be first. The author is stretching the evidence so far here. I hope the Hacker News audience understands that this article is presenting a very fringe theory, with a lot of holes. But the similarity of pronouns across the world is still a very interesting subject to research. Johanna Nichols has done a lot of work in that area.