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How the World's Most Complicated Language Works
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@ParametricGold

3 years ago

ā€œA voiceless non-labialized lamino-postalveolar dorso-palatal grooved sibilant fricativeā€

He is just talking about ā€œshā€

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@me4pie

3 years ago

Drunk Glasgow man is the worlds most complicated language actually.

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@larsw8776

3 years ago

Now imagine Aliens finding Ithkuil and trying to decipher it, thinking we were incredibly intelligent, complex beings.

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@iLikeCoffee777

3 years ago

I think this would make a neat "spell incantation" language since part of the very idea of magic words is that they are extremely specific and information dense. Also, the idea of the language being incomprehensible to those without special training is another common trope.

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@eyekandi

3 years ago

For awhile I wondered why some languages were so fast and long and they couldnā€™t be short and precise, now I realize why. this is pain inducing

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@6z0

3 years ago

Fun fact: Not one person can fluently speak Ithkuil, even the creator. So maybe you could be the first!

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@reasonnottheneed

3 years ago

Even if everyone in the world magically forgot every language, and magically learned this one, this language wouldn't last. Just from usage, it would immediately begin to rapidly simplify and become something very different from its original.

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@Puddlesoak

2 years ago

"And now I must stress the final syllable"
Immediately proceeds to stress the first syllable instead

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@eterevsky

3 years ago

"Which means I must stress the final syllable." Immediately after that the presenter pronounces the word with the stress on the initial syllable.

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@rokushou

3 years ago

Ithkuil looks like the result of an AI developing a language for humans. Complete with lookup tables incorporating all the sounds that a human can make in an efficient grid. Ease of use and was definitely not a concern.

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@CreeperGreenMC

3 years ago

This language is genius, why bother with text compression when you can just compress your whole language.
And People on twitter would love this language, it would give them even more characters to bully people

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@ayrplanes

2 years ago

This is the kind of language you would get if word cost $300 each.

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@chhunlux4085

3 years ago

This would be a perfect April fools video if it was fake.

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@vodozhaba

3 years ago

HAI: complains that ā€œvoiceless non-labialized lamino-postalveolar dorso-palatal grooved sibilant fricativeā€ tells him nothing
IPA [Źƒ] right there: am I a joke to you?

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@joeym5243

3 years ago

This is the language you use to write on the one note card you can use on a test

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@peterpanda5069

2 years ago

A language actually with phenomes (differentiable smells) would be amazing

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@kaiserredgamer8943

3 years ago

It is impossible to place implied or subtle meanings in this language because it's basically designed to convey messages in the most exact and comprehensive ways possible.

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@Ptaku93

3 years ago

the rampant mispronunciation is just a cherry on top making sure, we, the audience, never forget that this video was, in fact, narrated by a dweeb

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@hunterg6534

3 years ago

as a linguist this "phenome" thing is really driving me up the wall

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@tttITA10

2 years ago

As a linguist, all the mixing up of the "morpheme" and "phoneme" concepts in this video slightly triggers me, but I love how this video actually builds a word as an example for us. It is great. (By the way, you guys showed how the word should be stressed in the last syllable, but your final pronuntiation stressed the penultime syllable. It's still great, though, I just noticed it the second time around).

Also, lots of the things here are suprasegmental stuff, and I have no idea on how the morpheme concept works with supragmental stuff. I'll assume it is pretty much the same as it is for segments, but if any fellow linguist would explain this to me, I'd be thankful.

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