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Otter to Comic Strips@lemmy.worldEnglish • 2 years ago

xkcd: Language Acquisition

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xkcd: Language Acquisition

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Otter to Comic Strips@lemmy.worldEnglish • 2 years ago
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Source: https://xkcd.com/2839/

Explain XKCD: https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/2839

Title text: My first words were 'These were my first words; what were yours?'

  • @MeDuViNoX@sh.itjust.works
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    51•2 years ago

    Who learns twelve before one through eleven?

    • NotSteffen
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      42•2 years ago

      That’s my favorite part of this joke.

    • @joemo@lemmy.sdf.org
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      11•2 years ago

      The first few updates must have been riveting 😂.

    • Johanno
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      10•2 years ago

      Is twelve a number or a word?

      • @Grippler@feddit.dk
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        deleted by creator

        • @dustyData@lemmy.world
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          We have solid reason to believe numbers are a pretty distinct symbolic category. We don’t use the same part of the brain we use for speech to process numbers. We use a different distinct part of the brain that is not used for speech and is more related with visual processing. Both, speech and number areas, are activated when we read spelled out numbers, and even homophones pointing to the theory that numerals develop into their own thing inside our brains.

          • @morphballganon@lemmy.world
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            But being able to express those symbols in a sentence requires words

        • @Hupf@feddit.de
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          It’s in a superposition of states until observed.

      • @MeDuViNoX@sh.itjust.works
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        Yes

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