• Doll_Tow_Jet-ski@kbin.social
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    6 months ago

    Interesting and related: Noam Chomsky, in his work as linguist, has stated that what reaches the ear (or the eye in this case) is not what reaches the mind. What this means is that we experience language as if it was linearly ordered, when at the cognitive level (in the mind) language is actually hierarchically organized. This means that the underlying structure of language has to interface with the sensory-motoe systems in order to transform the hierarchical structure into a linear one. This is why we sometimes also struggle putting our thoughts into words, because in that interface there is a change in structure that doesn’t always preserve the ‘original’ (hierarchical) structure

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    I read this quickly and didn’t even realize there were any mistakes until I looked at the comments…
    I’m not sure if that’s a good thing or a bad thing. lol

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      I’ve seen reports that slowing down the rate that someone with dyslexia reads by adding some difficulty to recognising the words and likewise increasing how much they have to focus on seeing the words actually helps with compression. I suspect this works in a similar way. It took me a few goes to work out how out of order it wss, and I’m not dyslexic.

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    By chance I clicked on the link 3 times, and only third time I have noticed the mixup.

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      English is actually more structured and rigid language compared to, say, Slavic languages. It is just any language has redundancy, kind of error correction code, so that you can still recognize the meaning even from broken sentences and words.

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      a man sees a dog

      a dog sees a man

      Order matters. In languages with more redundancy that would work:

      Ein Mann sieht einen Hund

      subject verb object

      Einen Hund sieht ein Mann

      object verb subject

      But even there it breaks if you switch the articles, though there are languages with a lot higher redundancy than German. The less analytic a language is the better that works. Analytic has less forms, but requires a more rigid structure.

      The still English can order any legible fact and be completely written in that is be

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