1mo ago

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

news.mit.edu

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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Aren’t all languages artificial?
- I agree, it's a strange wording, that's why I say "constructed languages" when referring to them
  
  Yes, that term is better
  
  Which makes me skeptical about the news article, or the study itself. If the study doesn't call them "constructed languages," then I question the researchers - if they were studying this, they should know better. Nobody in the conlang community - inside Lemmy or out - calls them anything other than "constructed languages." If they don't know this basic fact, well.