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babble

On-Yomi: ア

Koohii stories:

1) [cameron_en] 3-12-2008(37): Babble is what comes out of Asian people's mouths until you learn their language.

2) [raulir] 10-12-2006(12): The kanji has the meanings of "mute" ( 聾唖 ) and "speechless" ( 唖然 ), like "dumb" used to ("struck dumb" etc). Asian mouth is mute in a way, because they don't babble so much as they do in some parts of the world.

3) [kapalama] 15-11-2010(3): 唖然 , 聾唖 , 唖者 , 聾唖者 , 唖 , babble (#2958 唖) ア, おし … Parts: 口 , 亜 Asia (#1809 亜) … Note: Odd Keyword. Really Mute, and Phonetic for ア. 亜 used to be ア phonetic, but as 亜細亜 (アジア) came to be a common term, 亜 came to used as a symbol for Asia, like 米 for America, 仏 for France, 阿 for Africa, 独 for Germany, etc. … Similars: 喋る chatter (#2158 喋), 唖然 babble (#2958 唖) … Story: Am I running my mouth about things to do with Asia? Am I Babbling?

4) [abaddon] 12-6-2008(2): Mouth, Asia: The baby opened its mouth and started babbling. To me, it was as intelligible as an Asian language, but the parents were babbling back in the same language.

5) [mantixen] 16-2-2007(1): At first, an Asian mouth might sound like babble.

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