[HN Gopher] The directed graph of stereotypical incomprehensibil... ___________________________________________________________________ The directed graph of stereotypical incomprehensibility (2009) Author : nvr219 Score : 12 points Date : 2021-02-06 13:04 UTC (1 days ago) (HTM) web link (languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu) (TXT) w3m dump (languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu) | PaulHoule wrote: | I have to admit that i dont have a good idea of what greek sounds | like. | SamBam wrote: | So would you say it's Greek to you? | Jtsummers wrote: | I mostly learned what it sounded like because of a stats | professor who was from Greece. He frequently complained of the | way people (in academia in the US) pronounced Greek letters. | Still not being too familiar with Greek, I'm not sure if the | pronunciation issues were local (his regional dialect versus | some "international" or standard dialect) or temporal (modern | Greek pronunciation versus a classical pronunciation, which | itself would have been filtered through Western European | languages and cultures). | shmageggy wrote: | Interesting that the graph is acyclic. I wonder if it's just a | coincidence or if there's some connection to the historical | trajectory of cultural transmission or to language evolution or | something? | sk5t wrote: | Perhaps only because it's incomplete? Like, is there no such | expression in terminal nodes Hindi or in Javanese--or in the | hundreds of other languages spoken today? ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2021-02-07 23:00 UTC)