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Cunning Linguists Languages and their use. What languages do you speak and why? What do words really mean? Can you say things in one language that you can't say in another? Should there be a national language? How many languages should a person know and what are they?

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The only other exception I can think of besides onomatopoeia is M used in 'mother'. I don't think I can come up with any languages where the word for mother doesn't include that consonant. This is...
 
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