[HN Gopher] The directed graph of stereotypical incomprehensibil...
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       The directed graph of stereotypical incomprehensibility (2009)
        
       Author : nvr219
       Score  : 12 points
       Date   : 2021-02-06 13:04 UTC (1 days ago)
        
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       | PaulHoule wrote:
       | I have to admit that i dont have a good idea of what greek sounds
       | like.
        
         | SamBam wrote:
         | So would you say it's Greek to you?
        
         | Jtsummers wrote:
         | I mostly learned what it sounded like because of a stats
         | professor who was from Greece. He frequently complained of the
         | way people (in academia in the US) pronounced Greek letters.
         | Still not being too familiar with Greek, I'm not sure if the
         | pronunciation issues were local (his regional dialect versus
         | some "international" or standard dialect) or temporal (modern
         | Greek pronunciation versus a classical pronunciation, which
         | itself would have been filtered through Western European
         | languages and cultures).
        
       | shmageggy wrote:
       | Interesting that the graph is acyclic. I wonder if it's just a
       | coincidence or if there's some connection to the historical
       | trajectory of cultural transmission or to language evolution or
       | something?
        
         | sk5t wrote:
         | Perhaps only because it's incomplete? Like, is there no such
         | expression in terminal nodes Hindi or in Javanese--or in the
         | hundreds of other languages spoken today?
        
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