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Whalesong patterns follow a universal law of human language, new research finds

phys.org Whalesong patterns follow a universal law of human language, new research finds

All known human languages display a surprising pattern: the most frequent word in a language is twice as frequent as the second most frequent, three times as frequent as the third, and so on. This is known as Zipf's law.

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Zipf's law!!!
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pareto_distribution
  
  Zipf's Law is rad
  
  Hell yeah dude! 😎
Unfortunate that we have no Rosetta Stone. Meaning a large language model might know how to respond, but not how to translate.
- ꪀꪮꪻ ᦓꪮ ꪑꪖꪀꪗ ᛕ᥅꠸ꪶꪶ,
  
  ꪶꪮꪊᦔ ᥇ꪮꪖꪻᦓ ꪻꫝꪖꪻ ᭙ꪖꪗ,
  
  ᥇ꪶꪖᦔꫀᦓ ꪻꫝꪖꪻ ᛕ꠸ꪶꪶ,
  
  ꪑꪖꪀᛕ꠸ꪀᦔ ꪮꪊ᥅ ᥇ꪶꪮꪮᦔ ᦔꪮꫀᦓ ᦓρ꠸ꪶꪶ.
  
  ꪖꪖꪖꪖꪖꪮꪮꪮꪮꪮꪮꪮꫀꫀꫀꫀꫀꫀꫀꫀꫀꫀꫀ
Nobody tell Michael Stevens/vsauce, he'll make a whole video on it.
- I mean someone tell him. Last upload was 2 years ago, what happened?
  
  He's been doing shorts and Curiosity Box instead according to Vsauce2.
  
  source

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