To the brain, Esperanto and Klingon appear the same as English or Mandarin (news.mit.edu)

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[-] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago

That led the researchers to wonder if artificial languages like Esperanto would be processed more like programming languages or more like natural languages.

I would have expected that Esperanto or Klingon would be the same as natural languages, but I'd be interested to see if more mathematical/logical conlangs like Lojban showed any difference.

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