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Old September 22, 2013, 09:36 PM
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Originally Posted by AMG View Post
Hi, good. It's from the Phrygian language.

I have an additional data for you:
Many years ago an Egyptian pharaoh made an experiment with two newborn boys. What he did was to raise them without having contact with any person, just a shepherd, but he couldn't say a word. When they were around 8 (I think), the shepherd heard that they said to each other this word: 'becos' (which meant bread, but they were not saying bread to each other) and he communicated this to the pharaoh, and he was really disappointed because he thought they would speak his language.

If this is not new for you and you know anything else, let me know. Thanks.
You can read the story here. Search for 'Becos'.
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