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Danslang

Apr 7, 2022
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INSIGHT

Youth Language Capacity Is Extraordinary

  • Children acquire powerful language capacity before 18 that enables rapid grammar creation.
  • Isaac Keton frames the phenomenon as a window into human language development.
ANECDOTE

Linguist Discovers Dan Slang Via Online Clip

  • Isaac Keton arrived after a video of students speaking Dan Slang in a Phantom Menace recreation reached him.
  • He declares the evolving school tongue his dissertation subject and seeks to document it.
INSIGHT

Dan Slang Shows Real Grammar

  • Dan Slang contains systematic linguistic features like ideophony and declension, not random slang.
  • Keton hears original grammar (possible applicative case) and calls it an astonishing linguistic system.
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