Let’s play a game. It’s called: “How can we tell when something is satire?”
To begin with…
The Wyoming Institute of Technology isn’t a real place. (Don’t confuse it with the Wyoming Technical Institute, which is.)
The websites for most institutions of higher learning don’t have ads from Comedy Central in their sidebars.
Bob Jones University isn’t a place where credible scientists work.
If you click on the name of the author, Dr. Richter DasMeerungeheuer, it takes you to a URL with the name BryanS.
The article includes the line, “Linguistic professors at Bob Jones University, long noted for its intellectual rigor…,” so you know right there it’s a joke.
It goes on like this for a while. The writers basically took a page from the Answers in Genesis playbook: If you include a lot of big words and make it sound like actual science, gullible people will believe anything you say.
Which brings us back to your relatives on Facebook. I appreciate the satire and I hate breaking the spell… but I hope anyone who receives a link to this scientific “breakthrough” can write back and debunk it immediately.
But fake can still be fun.