https://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=1024
Interesting article starting with the observation of the English phrase “it’s all Greek to me” to indicate something is incomprehensible. For the languages noted you can display it as a graph and it turns out the graph is acyclic, mean that if language A is seen as more incomprehensible than language B then B is never seen as more incomprehensible than A even indirectly. I.e. no B>X>Y>A.
Interesting or artefact of the selected languages I do not know.
Interesting article starting with the observation of the English phrase “it’s all Greek to me” to indicate something is incomprehensible. For the languages noted you can display it as a graph and it turns out the graph is acyclic, mean that if language A is seen as more incomprehensible than language B then B is never seen as more incomprehensible than A even indirectly. I.e. no B>X>Y>A.
Interesting or artefact of the selected languages I do not know.
via International Skeptics Forum https://ift.tt/2Lm1syo
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