• lad@programming.dev
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    18 days ago

    Makes me wonder what is a critical amount of people to use a word for it to realify

    • gwl [he/him]@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      18 days ago

      There’s a fun thing called a “friendly language”, which is any pseudolanguage spoken by a insulated group of 2 or more people, and not spoken by the outside group

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        18 days ago

        That doesn’t make it a part of another language though, which is what I was thinking of.

        But you’re right, as long as communication is successful, it is a language, I guess

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          18 days ago

          When my camp counselor friends and I had friends visit us from the outside world, they said they could barely understand our shared language lol