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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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[-] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago

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

[-] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 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] 3 points 4 months ago

if anyone has this pls share.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago
[-] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

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

[-] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

thank you very much!

[-] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

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

[-] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

Yo juego a futbol y al Monopoli.

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

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