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The Washington Post has a very odd definition of “understandability.”
Tū, mewom klneudhi! So pūr tosmōi senei manei dō. Negwrias kwṛmis apo bhergod deukdhi, tod mātrei dō. Ne askoisu spyeudhi! That’s a pseudo-Proto-Indo-European version of what the WaPo claims is a sentence that could be understood across 150 centuries. Did … Continue reading
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Tagged historical linguistics, language, media fail, proto-indo-european, washington post
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Holy crap, I want to work on this!
UC Berkley is welding two of my linguistic loves: large amounts of data and dead languages. I have to try and bring this kind of thing to Brandeis. We love large amounts of properly formatted data. I’ve always had a … Continue reading
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Tagged corpus linguistics, historical linguistics, linguistics, machine learning
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