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GNUkko Sauvage (eris-ng) 
eris@p.enes.lv
Proto-Indo-European had *kʷskʷskʷs for calling cats, in satem languages it turned into ksksks, but in centum languages it stayed as a labiovelar kʷ, which then later turned into p in p-celtic, osco-umbrian, greek and germanic, thus giving us pspsps
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@eris how did that become kicikici in polish
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GNUkko Sauvage (eris-ng)
eris@p.enes.lv
Polish, being a slavic language, is a satem language thus it's from ksksks
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meeper@shitposter.world
meeper@shitposter.world
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GNUkko Sauvage (eris-ng)
eris@p.enes.lv
It's a joke yeah. I did not bother to dig into the data and there's obviously way more than just ksks and psps.
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MaxTheFox
maxthefox@spacey.space@eris And the reason it attracts cats is because it's a similar sound to the sounds that mice make.
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