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Different sounds in different languages
KB Started conversation Sep 18, 2007
"One might consider that such words might be a precursor to a structured language, until one studies that the noise a dog makes, in English wuff-wuff, is certainly different from that what a dog makes in the following countries: in German wau-wau, in French ouah-ouah, in Russian gaf-gaf."
I can see how the letters are different - but when I look at them I can still see how they come from the noise a dog makes. The different spelling doesn't necessarily mean that these 'words' are not precursors to structured language.
If you make a sound and ask different people to use letters to spell it, you will get different combinations of letters. This applies even when they all use the same language.
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