Originally published at: http://boingboing.net/2016/07/26/watch-language-evolve-as-littl.html
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This is not a very exciting game.
No, but it’s a promising idea. I am enthused.
Some ideas:
- Configurable parameters!
- Add a (very simple) grammar for each language, which is more resistant to change than vocabulary
- Add randomly-generated word formation and transformation rules (like ‘this language breaks up consonant clusters with randomly-selected vowels’)
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No it’s not. Pretty to watch, but it’s really just demonstrating random gene-mixing in an evolutionary algorithm. Without context (“this means ‘apple’”) or a measure of fitness, it’s basically “how can we scramble words.”
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