Human languages with greater information density have higher communication speed but lower conversation breadth - Nature Human Behaviour
Human languages with greater information density have higher communication speed but lower conversation breadth - Nature Human Behaviour
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2112.08491.pdf
The authors document wide variation in information density and speed of communication across the world’s languages. They find that higher-density languages communicate information more quickly but with more sustained focus than lower-density languages.
Esperanto: The artificial language that aimed to unite humanity
Esperanto: The artificial language that aimed to unite humanity
https://bigthink.com/high-culture/esperanto-the-artificial-language-that-aimed-to-unite-humanity/
A language for the world has been the dream of many thinkers for millennia. Esperanto was created to fill that role. Here is its story.
Sloshed, plastered and gazeboed: why Britons have 546 words for drunkenness
Sloshed, plastered and gazeboed: why Britons have 546 words for drunkenness
https://www.theguardian.com/food/2024/feb/20/sloshed-plastered-and-gazeboed-why-britons-have-546-words-for-drunkenness
Combine ribald humour with peculiar sentence construction and a genuinely horrifying drinking culture, and what do you get? A dictionary’s worth of ‘drunkonyms’
A Vasconic inscription on a bronze hand: writing and rituality in the Iron Age Irulegi settlement in the Ebro Valley | Antiquity | Cambridge Core
A Vasconic inscription on a bronze hand: writing and rituality in the Iron Age Irulegi settlement in the Ebro Valley | Antiquity | Cambridge Core
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/antiquity/article/vasconic-inscription-on-a-bronze-hand-writing-and-rituality-in-the-iron-age-irulegi-settlement-in-the-ebro-valley/645A15DF3D725F83D62F3D1FB5DF83EC
A Vasconic inscription on a bronze hand: writing and rituality in the Iron Age Irulegi settlement in the Ebro Valley - Volume 98 Issue 397
The decimal point is 150 years older than historians thought
The decimal point is 150 years older than historians thought
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-00473-2
Origin of the powerful calculation tool traced back to a mathematician from the Italian Renaissance.
Duolingo Sucks, Now What?: A Guide
Duolingo Sucks, Now What?: A Guide
https://ruhua-langblr.tumblr.com/post/739086003139149824/duolingo-sucks-now-what-a-guide
Now that the quality of Duolingo has fallen (even more) due to AI and people are more willing to make the jump here are just some alternative apps and what languages they have: "I just want an...
The English words “wheel” and “rickshaw” are extraordinary cognates
North American English Dialects, Based on Pronunciation Patterns
https://aschmann.net/AmEng/
Computational phylogenetics reveal histories of sign languages
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https://www.science.org/doi/full/10.1126/science.add7766