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This is Scientific American's 60-second science. I'm Christopher in Talata. Got a minute?

Communication on Twitter is artificially constrained.

Just 140 characters per tweet, max.

So it turns out the more words in a tweet, the shorter each word tends to be.

At least according to one analysis.

It sort of makes sense on Twitter, right?

There's a limited amount of space to play with.

But the weird thing is, that pattern, longer phrase, shorter words, it also holds true in our

everyday language, too.

It's called Menserith's Law.

It's this idea of essentially compression and information.

Morgan Gustafin, a psychologist at the University of Michigan.

And so mensurist law, the way you define it is the larger the whole, the smaller the parts.

Gustusen and her colleagues tested out that rule of human language on the calls of gelatas, relatives of baboons.

They analyzed more than a thousand of those call sequences,

which are strung together from six distinct call types.

And they found that, just as the law would predict in human communication,

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