Lol. Speaking English is now dangerous?

[elmouno]

You did not misread that. This article is trying to say that speaking English puts you more at risk 🤪

www.google.com/amp/s/covid19data.com/2020/09/08/why-speaking-english-may-spread-more-coronavirus-than-other-languages/%3famp

The ridiculousness of this all should start being pretty obvious people!! What language are you going to start learning in case that's the next rULe????? 😂

Perhaps we should pin our lips together like in Handmaid’s Tale?

We could communicate via mime?

@Funkypolar

The current parallels to that show are scary. I feel like there are far more people than I thought who would willingly be an Aunt Lydia.

Spanish and Portuguese have no aspirated consonants, it's not helping South America at the moment .

Stop reading junk science.

It's not new, and it's not serious. Academic linguists were looking at this months ago (I remember news stories from France back in April), but as a joke. The science behind it is real, insofar as different languages will inevitably produce different levels of projection of droplets, but none of the linguists are seriously suggesting doing anything about it. It's a nerdy linguistic in joke. More fool on any mainstream media who take it seriously.

Que bien. Desde ahora voy a hablar solamente en espanol.

Que basura. (what a load of rubbish).

OP, do you realise you've posted an article about an article about a study? Why not just post the link to the study being discussed and then re-summarised?

... which says "Although no statistical differences were found between the two types of languages, we observed that in countries in which the dominant language has aspirated consonants there were more cases of individuals infected by COVID-19 in comparison to countries in which the dominant language does not have aspirated consonants."

No statistical differences.

Ha, serves you right 🤣. Have you any idea how difficult the 'th' sound is for foreigners, all that lisping 🤣.

The actual results of the study:

"The independent t-test analysis conducted in R showed no significant differences in cases of inflected individuals between the languages with aspiration (M = 254.9, SD = 159.5) and the languages without aspiration (M = 206, SD = 121.9), [t(18) = 0.73, p > .05]."

www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7263261/

Yes, that's what I said!

@Quarantino

Yes, that's what I said!

Yes - sorry. Wrote the post then got distracted for a bit before actually hitting publish!

In Singapore, it’s forbidden to speak on public transport.

www.gov.uk/foreign-travel-advice/singapore/coronavirus

I heard that you're more likely to die if you wear red or blue underpants, and less likely if they're black or ivory. Can anyone confirm?