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Re:Is “Huh?” a Universal Word? (2013) by sm0ckr on Saturday September 26, 2015 @03:17PM (#10284120)
The Russian example in the paper is something like "a?". Part of their hypothesis that makes "huh" a word is that it is calibrated to the phonetic system of its language.
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Re:Is “Huh?” a Universal Word? (2013) by zastavka on Saturday September 26, 2015 @03:31PM (#10284151)
> calibrated to the phonetic system of its language

The funny thing about that, though, is that English "huh" has a phonetic feature that's almost nonexistent in the language otherwise: a nasal vowel not followed by a nasal consonant.

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Re:Is “Huh?” a Universal Word? (2013) by coldtea on Saturday September 26, 2015 @06:50PM (#10284711)
>a nasal vowel not followed by a nasal consonant

Maybe depends on where in the English speaking world? I'm thinking of Scotland, Ireland, Australia, etc.

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