Nearly universal speech quirks
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The English language has at least half a million words, depending on what dictionary you’re looking at. English consists of letters running from the left side of the page to the right, while other languages run from right to left or vertically. English has 24 consonants (more than you can probably name off-hand), while Hawaiian has just eight, and the Ubykh language has more than 80. Clearly, languages can be very different from one another.
But in a few strange ways, all these very different languages behave exactly the same.
The Number of Ideas Passed Per Minute
The Way We Invent Names of Colors
How Common Words Are
Word Association
“Huh?”
