From: jbb@notatt.com   
      
   On 10/21/2024 3:30 AM, Ross Clark wrote:   
   > "...another day that has come out of the United States without any   
   > obvious origin or reason."   
   > (Various web sites throw out different ideas about why there should be   
   > such a day. None claim responsibility for it.)   
   > To fill up the rest of the page, Crystal talks about "babbling" as a   
   > particular phase of children's language development.   
   >   
   > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babbling   
      
   Not sure if this is relevant but ... Timing seems to concur with the   
   voting time for the major US elections. Even my untrained ear tends to   
   associate what I hear with the word babbling. The could equally call it   
   "stumping and thumping time" but babbling with the hint of childhood and   
   lack of mature brain control just might be more accurate; both for the   
   production and the gullible consumption of the sounds.   
   --   
   Jeff Barnett   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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