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Thank you so much for posting the links, they were supposed to have shown up at the bottom of my reply, I think I did something wrong for looking at it they are not there. Oh-well I am still learning the ins and outs of this system.

Don't worry AlimaeHP, even those of us who have been here for years get tripped up by the system. For example, I know I responded to your explanation of the term non-linguistic words yesterday afternoon. I distinctly remember typing out the reply. And it's gone. Completely disappeared into the void. Oh well.

What I thought I'd said was that the use of these interjections varies from language to language and so must be linguistic. For example, Indonesian speakers don't say 'ouch' they say 'aduh' or 'ayiii'.

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