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I have heard this same story attributed to Emperor Frederick II only the end
was that without appropriate social interaction the babies died.
Jo Ann
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> > This is reminiscent of a pamphlet I once read by a radical Orthodox
rabbi
> > claiming that all the world's languages derive from Hebrew;
>
> Which reminds me of a tale I once read about James I / VI who had an
> enquiring mind. It was said that he wanted to discover what the original
> human language was - what men spoke before the Fall and / or / the Tower
of
> Babel. He had two new-born children (both baby boys I suspect) isolated
with
> two deaf-and-dumb wet nurses to see what language the children would use
> untaught. It was reported that the children came to speak "a pretty fair
> sort of Ebrew" .....
>
> Don't ask me how ....
>
> Brenda M C
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