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By the way, your statistics are for English. For German, where we have 14.3 characters per word on average[1], we get: 10'000/14.8 = 676 words. 676 words @ 2
by justJanne 11y ago
By the way, your statistics are for English.
For German, where we have 14.3 characters per word on average[1], we get:
10'000/14.8 = 676 words.
676 words @ 250 wpm is 2 Minutes 42 Seconds.
A 2½ Minute article is very short, like a short comment in a newspaper, and would fit very well into a microblogging site.
[1] http://www.duden.de/sprachwissen/sprachratgeber/durchschnittliche-laenge-eines-deutschen-wortes http://www.duden.de/sprachwissen/sprachratgeber/durchschnitt...
- derefr 11y agoI would think max wpm should go down as word-length increases, no?
- Zitrax 11y agoWouldn't average characters per sentence be a slightly better measure? In German and other Germanic languages it's common with compounded words, thus word XY seem long but would in English just be written as X Y.
- kuschku 11y agoProbably, but then, on Twitter, people abbreviate words in english or leave them out in ways that aren’t possible in German. It’s hard when you need 3 or 4 tweets for a simple sentence explaining why Sony DCP projectors used to be easier for piracy than competing products.