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To the brain, Esperanto and Klingon appear the same as English or Mandarin. (news.mit.edu)

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[–] AbouBenAdhem@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Sure.

I suspect the motivation behind this study was to try to narrow down the deciding factor in the earlier study showing a difference between natural and programming languages—the next logical step would be looking at a more “artificial” conlang like Lojban (and/or a more “natural” programming language like ACE).

The end result will probably be some broader category of “language-network-interpretable” languages including natural and (some but maybe not all) conlangs.