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.
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
Wonder how Thai is the zipfile of languages.
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.
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.