# Other than Love - What universal language should we speak?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/other-than-love-what-universal-language-should-we-speak/203121>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [September 22, 2003, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/other-than-love-what-universal-language-should-we-speak/203121 "2003-09-22T16:31:35Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![j\_sum1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/8baadc/32.png) [@j\_sum1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/j_sum1)\
**Post date:** [September 26, 2003, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/other-than-love-what-universal-language-should-we-speak/203121/21 "2003-09-26T15:30:03Z")

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Addendum: true stoy.

It’s easy to learn Strut. I learned it when hitch-hiking one day.  
I was picked up by a couple of slightly spaced-out Rastafarians in a vehicle with no brakes, playing loud reggae and pigeon-necking all the way from here to Paeroa.

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**Author:** ![Declan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ecae2f/32.png) [@Declan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Declan)\
**Post date:** [September 27, 2003, 4:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/other-than-love-what-universal-language-should-we-speak/203121/22 "2003-09-27T04:42:54Z")

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Hmmm

Amazing , no one mentioned the american dollar. Its the universal translator.

Declan

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**Author:** ![a\_bird\_on\_the\_wire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d9b06d/32.png) [@a\_bird\_on\_the\_wire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/a_bird_on_the_wire)\
**Post date:** [September 27, 2003, 5:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/other-than-love-what-universal-language-should-we-speak/203121/23 "2003-09-27T05:35:01Z")

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It seems that there is a language of the eyes that may for all practical purposes be universal.

Something about the eyes…you can almost always tell what the feeling is.

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**Author:** ![hebesphenomegacorona](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b9e5f3/32.png) [@hebesphenomegacorona](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hebesphenomegacorona)\
**Post date:** [September 27, 2003, 2:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/other-than-love-what-universal-language-should-we-speak/203121/24 "2003-09-27T14:33:02Z")

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English.

Or OObooshoomocoocoo.

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**Author:** ![hebesphenomegacorona](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b9e5f3/32.png) [@hebesphenomegacorona](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hebesphenomegacorona)\
**Post date:** [September 27, 2003, 2:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/other-than-love-what-universal-language-should-we-speak/203121/25 "2003-09-27T14:33:10Z")

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English.

Or OObooshoomocoocoo.

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