these cut across conventional spoken language divisions. the language of a grandfather and a girl he meets in the park is more similar across Japanese and English than it is with the language of a King to his Subjects within the same national language
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Lisp & everything else
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How about to inanimate or non verbal entities
rocks & birds? Could be one sided descriptive language unless their culture sees them as bidirectional interactionsThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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https://www.k-international.com/blog/men-and-women-dont-speak-the-same-language/ … I have one that’s even better, need to find it though
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Cool how Japanese has literally different "languages" for different kinds of relationships
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Been staring at this section of this page for two weeks+ nowhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Register_(sociolinguistics)#Register_as_formality_scale …
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Maybe we need a social lingua franca
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