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What People Get Wrong About Language - The Ithkuil Fallacy

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  • Aug 26, 2022
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Let's talk about the experimental language of Ithkuil, an experiment I carried out, and why anyone would want verb conjugations by person in German. Sources: Foer, J. (2012). "Uto... Show More

Let's talk about the experimental language of Ithkuil, an experiment I carried out, and why anyone would want verb conjugations by person in German.

Sources:

Foer, J. (2012). "Utopian for Beginners". The New Yorker.

Quijada, J. (2004-2019). "A Grammar of the Ithkuil Language". ithkuil.net. [Retrieved 12/08/2022]

My study:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1zluHuv02D9ChxM0BAsnUf9VeIy8aXPeXbOsZNIKm9Ds/edit?usp=sharing

Chapters:
0:00 - Ithkuil
2:03 - The Ithkuil Fallacy
4:02 - My Experiment
5:56 - My Point & Credits

Written and Created by Me
Art by kvd102
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Thanks to everyone who took part in the experiment!

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Yohan John @dryohanjohn ยท Sep 2, 2022
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Pretty good video. The narrator doesn't use the term, but this is a potential example of an efficiency-robustness tradeoff. A related topic is the stability-plasticity dilemma.
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