By adamg on Tue., 3/18/2025 - 10:46 am
MIT News reports on the outcome of sticking people who can actually speak Esperanto, Klingon, Na'vi and High Valyrian into MRI machines while they were read texts in those languages: The same parts of their brains that become activated while listening to "natural" languages such as English were activated. This is different from people being read excerpts of the computer-programming language Python, who had a different part of the brain go into action.
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Computer programming is not speech
By necturus
Tue, 03/18/2025 - 1:09pm
...so it follows that the brain is going to process it differently.
Klingon
By Lanny Budd
Tue, 03/18/2025 - 2:48pm
The only word I know is Ziplock.
Broken link?
By cdevers
Tue, 03/18/2025 - 3:29pm
The link in the article is supposed to go to MIT News, but it’s just this article itself.
Looks like the article in question is here:
in software speak...
By JJ
Tue, 03/18/2025 - 4:22pm
... that's called recursion.
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