Huh?

A  L  O  H  A !

" No matter how smart

you thought you were,

you are actually

way less smart

than that."

David Foster Wallace

" We are always

the same age

inside." 

Gertrude Stein

" The face of a child

can  say it all.

Especially

the mouth part

of the face."

Jack Handey

Are Today's quotes:

Profound?

Paradoxical?

Stupid?

I suspect there is no

correct answer.

Is there a universal word

understood all over our globe?

Dutch scientists say 

"Ja!"

[ That's a 'Yes']

10 languages on 

5 continents:

Dutch, Icelandic, 

Mandarin Chinese,

West African Siwu,

 Australian aboriginal 

Murrinh-Patha -

ALL use

"Huh?"

" -only 'Huh?' occurs 

across languages 

whose phonetic patterns 

otherwise vary greatly. "

 Mark Dingemanse, 

Francisco Torreira.

 Nick Enfield, 

Researchers,

Max Planck Institute

for Psycholinguistics 

(Netherlands) 

New York Times (Link)

As I told my (blog invisible) husband:

"I cause nice people ALL over the world

to go "Huh???"

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