• acchariya@lemmy.world
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      2 months ago

      It is multiplexed with five tones and a variety of different registers to signify relationship, status, and variable interplay between the two based on situation.

      • University Thai language learner, linguist, and professional Thai reading, writing, speaking in Thailand for several years
    • DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social
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      My very casual understanding is that grammatical structure or gender isn’t really a thing, or articles for that matter, making it very contextual and tonal language so a zipfile isn’t even a bad metaphor.

      However, in this case it seems like the human brain is the default Windows zip program.