<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">On Sun, Oct 1, 2023 at 6:31 AM Stuart LaForge via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">What a fascinating word. Before OK was brought up, I was thinking of <br>
"mama". The syllable "ma" occurs in the word for mother in every <br>
language that I myself am familiar with. It lies at the very definition <br>
of "mammal". It might be a runner up to OK in terms of being close to a <br>
universal word. Can anybody think of an exception?<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>The Danish translation of "mama" is "mor". Finnish is "äiti". Lao is "aem". Mongolian is "eej". And there's Georrgian, as Gadersd pointed out.</div></div></div>