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February 26, 2009 2:43 pm
Are 2,3,5,I and who really the oldest words? What about birth,warmth(sun),Cold, gender...?Water,waste,air...?
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February 26, 2009 10:58 pm
Who claims that these are the oldest words? This sets off the skepticism alarm...
February 26, 2009 11:00 pm
I was gonna go with "No" being the oldest word.
I know "No" is the first word a baby learns.
February 26, 2009 11:47 pm
The recent press coverage about which words are oldest is fraught with all kinds of impoverished thinking and bad science. Dennis Baron has a pretty good refutation and there's a great deal of deserved skepticism at Language Log.
February 28, 2009 2:52 pm
dilettante said:
Who claims that these are the oldest words? This sets off the skepticism alarm…
This was on NPR 2-24.