Re: Human speech 350,000 years ago?

[Don Winterstein]

| The Chinese make much of the sounds of their words. Example: Few of
| them will buy a house with the numeral 4 prominent in the street
| address, because the sound /si/ for "4" is the same as the sound for
| "death," even though the tones are different!

I remember that from Japan. There was no fourth floor in my hotel,
and this was explained exactly as above (but I don't remember the
sound).

SA

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