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Things we all have in common.

we all beat out a million other sperm cells to be the chosen one

We are all winners for simply being alive guys, dont forget that.
 
L2R, I honestly wasn't taking the thread's topic all that seriously, just trying to be clever. You're absolutely right -- not everybody has adequate parental figures.

The Chinese character for "every" is made of the symbol for "people" over the symbol for "mother", the assumed etymology being "every person has a mother". I think this is what I was thinking of when I replied to this thread.
 
We've all thought about death, and how it can take us at any instant.

George Carlin (comedian) on our similarities:

 
MyDoorsAreOpen said:
L2R, I honestly wasn't taking the thread's topic all that seriously, just trying to be clever. You're absolutely right -- not everybody has adequate parental figures.

The Chinese character for "every" is made of the symbol for "people" over the symbol for "mother", the assumed etymology being "every person has a mother". I think this is what I was thinking of when I replied to this thread.
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so what's the connection between mothers and females with horses? ;)

it's all good, mdao. :)
 
No etymological connection. The Chinese word ma (with a flat high tone) is almost certainly borrowed from some Indo-European language. The native Chinese word for mother, still used in some very traditional households, is niang (with a second / rising tone). The character for mother just includes the radicals for "mouth" and "horse" to indicate that it's a word pronounced similarly to the word for horse.
 
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