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Fix typo in katolaz's article, thanks yargo for catching it!

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@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ But "speaking" is not the only possible manifestation of a human language. The s
Some recent studies have even shown that the speakers of "whistled" languages actually process whistles using the same regions of the brain that other humans use to process words in the usual "spoken" languages.
But why am I telling you about "whistled" languages? Well, because I recently started learning an artificial language that resembles "whistled" languages a lot. I am talking about Morse code [3]. Yes, the one used back in the days for telegraphy, where each letter of the alphabet consists of a short series of dot and dashes, or dits and dahs, and so on. It turns out Morse code is far from extinct, as it is currently in use by radio amateurs around the globe to communicate in the so-called "Continuous Wave" mode, normally abbreviated "CW" [4]. Basically, you send your message as a concatenation of long and short tones or pulses, which are then decoded by the person at the other end of the contact.
But why am I telling you about "whistled" languages? Well, because I recently started learning an artificial language that resembles "whistled" languages a lot. I am talking about Morse code [3]. Yes, the one used back in the days for telegraphy, where each letter of the alphabet consists of a short series of dots and dashes, or dits and dahs, and so on. It turns out Morse code is far from extinct, as it is currently in use by radio amateurs around the globe to communicate in the so-called "Continuous Wave" mode, normally abbreviated "CW" [4]. Basically, you send your message as a concatenation of long and short tones or pulses, which are then decoded by the person at the other end of the contact.
If you ever try to learn Morse code (it is totally doable in a few weeks, or even less) you will be told that you must not think of each letter as consisting of a certain sequence of dots and dashes, but rather as a "sound", a new way to "pronounce" and "perceive" the same letter you are used to reading and writing [5]. The aim is to force your brain to think of "A" whenever you hear the sound "di-daa" and to think of "R" whenever you hear the sound "di-daah-dit", without having to double-translate the sound to dot-and-dashes and then back to the images of letters that our brain constructs and keeps.