| ▲ | davidmurdoch 5 hours ago |
| Isn't English one of the most information dense languages? |
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| ▲ | tinza123 5 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| English is not dense at all. I had to change my thread naming to Chinese because the side bar in codex is narrow and English just can’t be as expressive per word |
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| ▲ | davidmurdoch 5 hours ago | parent [-] | | Written English is still pretty good when compared to all languages. When considering UTF-8 bytes, a English is almost as good as Chinese, since Chinese uses about 3 bytes per character. For spoken language, French and English are at the top, but most languages are about the same bits/second. Languages with less information density are just spoken faster to make up for it. | | |
| ▲ | bloak 5 hours ago | parent [-] | | How fast people speak is more a cultural thing than a language thing. People in Texas, for example, speak more slowly than other speakers of American English. | | |
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| ▲ | aprilthird2021 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| Maybe Chinese / Japanese / Korean is more |
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| ▲ | quickthrowman 5 hours ago | parent [-] | | Yeah I’d imagine having several thousand pictograms is more information dense, but there are huge drawbacks to using pictograms in computing that alphabets do not have, text input being a major one. |
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