Saturday, November 23, 2013

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???"

                                    Warmly, cloudia