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Human languages with greater information density have higher communication speed but lower conversation breadth - Nature Human Behaviour (arxiv.org)

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[–] Rognaut 5 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Paywall! But the title just seems like an obvious conclusion.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

The title is kind of obvious, but the conclusion of the article is interesting: that we should be taking into account the social aspects of linguistic relativity, not just the individual ones.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

In Entish, anything that's worth saying is worth taking your time to say it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (2 children)

if anyone has this pls share.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago (2 children)

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2112.08491.pdf

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

Suggestion/idea: you could add the link to the original post.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago (1 children)

done

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Thank you!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

thank you very much!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Yo juego a futbol y al Monopoli.

And I learned Spanish in high school, so some paper this is.