Note however gender has a second role, besides agreement: derivation

Interesting… I hadn’t considered that this might enable linguistic “shorthands”, is that the implication?

Sounds to me on the whole like you’re saying that the bitrate per syllable is solid and doing the heavy lifting here?

It’s super interesting; and the implications are actually huge.

I’d be interested in follow up studies to examine emergent linguistic patterns. Can we weigh syllabic encoding by common usage by age? If we eliminate “thouest” from the dictionary but include “skibidi” how does that skew patterns for informational density?

Science is so fucking cool and I’m stoked that people nerd out on shit that I’m an idiot about so I can learn about the nature of the world.