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If you stubbed your toe right now, what sound would you make?

According to linguists, the chances are pretty good that your answer would be surprisingly similar to one

given by someone on the other side of the planet, even if you speak totally different languages.

For Scientific American, I'm Rachel Feltman. I'm here today with our friend Alison Partial,

an associate news editor at Scientific American, who often covers biology, health, technology, and physics.

She recently wrote about a study that focused on the words humans used to express pain

and the wild similarities between those exclamations around the world.

Alison, thanks for coming on to chat.

Hopefully it won't be too painful.

Ouch, that's all I have to say.

So why are linguists talking about pain?

Well, linguists are talking about everything always.

Talking about talking.

But linguists are talking about pain because the words that we use to express it might actually tell us something about

our shared biology and the evolution of kind of language in general. It's a pretty big topic.

It's part of why I'm so interested to talk about it today. But this particular discovery

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