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To the brain, Esperanto and Klingon appear the same as English or Mandarin (news.mit.edu)
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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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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Aren’t all languages artificial?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I agree, it's a strange wording, that's why I say "constructed languages" when referring to them

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

Yes, that term is better

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

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.