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Previous Thread Next Thread Print Thread Re: paraprosdokian Jackie #205943 06/02/12 11:10 AM Joined: Dec 2000 Posts: 13,803 Faldage Carpal Tunnel Faldage Carpal Tunnel Joined: Dec 2000 Posts: 13,803 Originally Posted By: Jackie But on the one acronym site I saw a statement that made me curious: You know, there are only a few thousand natural languages in use by humans today, yet among these, there are a few in which the child's word for father is mama. Does anybody know whether this is true? According to this paper it is. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Entire Thread Subject Posted By Posted paraprosdokian BranShea 05/30/12 06:27 PM Re: paraprosdokian Jackie 06/02/12 02:31 AM Re: paraprosdokian tsuwm 06/02/12 02:50 AM Re: paraprosdokian BranShea 06/02/12 10:48 AM Re: paraprosdokian tsuwm 06/02/12 05:57 PM Re: paraprosdokian BranShea 06/02/12 09:13 PM Re: paraprosdokian Faldage 06/02/12 11:10 AM Re: paraprosdokian Jackie 06/03/12 01:32 AM Moderated by  Jackie  Hop To General Topics ------  Information and announcements  Q&A about words  Wordplay and fun  Words and languages in schools  Miscellany  Weekly Themes  Looking for (writers, speakers,... (Old) Weekly themes. (have been... ------  Words from medicine  Beheading words  Meta-words  Words from classical mythology  Animal Safari  Words with unusual etymologies  Eponyms or words derived from p...  Loanwords from German  English as a global language Print Thread Switch to Flat Mode Show Likes Link Copied to Clipboard View Profile Private Message Website Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary Forum Statistics Forums16 Topics13,913 Posts229,809 Members9,187 Most Online3,341 Dec 9th, 2011 Newest Members Karin, JeffMackwood, artguitar, Jim_W, Rdbuffalo 9,187 Registered Users Who's Online Now 0 members (), 419 guests, and 3 robots. Key: Admin, Global Mod, Mod Top Posters(30 Days) wofahulicodoc 31 A C Bowden 17 LukeJavan8 5 Top Posters wwh 13,858 Faldage 13,803 Jackie 11,613 wofahulicodoc 10,851 tsuwm 10,542 LukeJavan8 9,944 Buffalo Shrdlu 7,210 AnnaStrophic 6,511 Wordwind 6,296 of troy 5,400

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