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Tony Bark@pawb.social to Linguistics@mander.xyzEnglish · 2 months ago

To the brain, Esperanto and Klingon appear the same as English or Mandarin

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To the brain, Esperanto and Klingon appear the same as English or Mandarin

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MIT research finds the brain’s language-processing network also responds to artificial languages such as Esperanto and languages made for TV, such as Klingon on “Star Trek” and High Valyrian and Dothraki on “Game of Thrones.”
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      Whoops, I guess I was skimming by the time I reached that point, thanks.

      I won’t be surprised if it’s also indistinguishable from natural languages; I speak a bit of Arabic and was surprised to learn how “mathematical” the root/pattern system is - it felt like arguments into functions.

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