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Re: word evolution from grunts and hoots #83452 10/12/02 03:45 AM
Joined: Nov 2000 Posts: 1,289 B Bobyoungbalt veteran
Bobyoungbalt veteran B Joined: Nov 2000 Posts: 1,289	Alex, you've never heard of the Ding Dong Theory and the Bow Wow Theory of language? As is obvious from the names, these related theories posit that many words (or nouns, at least) came into being from the sounds which things make. Of course, this doesn't account for hippopotamus .

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gen	nettie01	10/12/02 01:09 AM
Re: gen	Wordwind	10/12/02 01:21 AM
Re: gen	Jackie	10/12/02 03:18 AM
Re: gen	Alex Williams	10/12/02 03:37 AM
Re: word evolution from grunts and hoots	Bobyoungbalt	10/12/02 03:45 AM
Re: gen	nettie01	10/14/02 09:03 PM
Re: gen	nettie01	10/12/02 09:32 AM
Re: gen	wwh	10/12/02 01:52 PM
Re: gen	FishonaBike	10/14/02 01:26 PM
Re: gen	Capital Kiwi	10/14/02 08:14 PM
Re: gen	of troy	10/14/02 10:19 PM
Re: gen	FishonaBike	10/15/02 03:45 PM
Re: gen	Capital Kiwi	10/15/02 08:58 PM
NZ islands	FishonaBike	10/16/02 12:31 PM
Re: gen	Jackie	10/16/02 10:38 AM
Re: gen	sjm	10/13/02 08:23 PM
Re: gen	Capital Kiwi	10/13/02 08:37 PM
Re: welcome Nettie01	wow	10/14/02 01:32 PM

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