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My Wife Discovered A Universal Language Comprised Of One Letter
And only moms can speak it.
If English is not your first language, you’d probably agree with me that English is the [insert insult here] language in human history e.g. “to”, “two”, “too”, “toot”, “tutu”…you get the idea. I’m sure every other language has its idiosyncrasies and little surprises. My second language is Tagalog (Filipino), and ‘mahal’ (mah-hall) has two meanings: ‘love’ and ‘expensive’. Nobody is ever going to convince me that wasn’t intentional. But English is still the absolute worst.
It turns out there’s another language that we all know from the time we turn two years old, and it all revolves around the letter ‘M’. That’s it. ‘M’ is the whole language. We all understand it, but only moms can speak it.
As far as I can tell, there’s not a single emotive response that my wife can’t distill down to some form of ‘M’:
Yes: ‘m-M’ (no ‘h’ needed)
No: ‘M-m’, but different from ‘m-M’.
Maybe: ‘M?’
Delicious: ‘Mmmmmm’
