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		aitchnyu 5 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Linear algebra explains why some words are effecti... A couple of ape cubs who learned sign language saw a duck and invented "waterbird". We have to know two dead languages to know if aquaplaning or hydroplaning is the right word.

jleyank 5 months ago [–]

Language while involved in that water related process is probably drawn from Anglo-Saxon or possibly Old Norse. No refined Mediterranean stuff.

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