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2009/02/26 - 9:43pm

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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2009/02/27 - 5:58am

Who claims that these are the oldest words? This sets off the skepticism alarm...

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2009/02/27 - 6:00am

I was gonna go with "No" being the oldest word.
I know "No" is the first word a baby learns.

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2009/02/27 - 6:47am

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.

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2009/02/28 - 9:52pm

dilettante said:

Who claims that these are the oldest words? This sets off the skepticism alarmâ€¦

This was on NPR 2-24.

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