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Old 05-16-2008, 07:16 PM
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Does it have something to do with how the mouth is shaped to pronounce it?
Yes m8. If i remember correctly, it had to do with the first humans pairing up a sound with a particular idea. One would assume that the sounds or words would have a random pairing with an idea, but the study almost points to an eerie innate property about language.
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