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Half a tweet.

• FroshKiller 11y ago
  It could be an extraordinarily expressive language, though. Think about what Japanese writers can do with 140 characters.
  • coderdude 11y ago
    This made me want to Google 'Japanese entropy bits' and the first hit for me was this paper: http://www.phontron.com/paper/neubig13sam.pdf http://www.phontron.com/paper/neubig13sam.pdf "How Much is Said in a Tweet? A Multilingual, Information-theoretic Perspective" I think what you want is presented in a figure on page 6.
    • FroshKiller 11y ago
      So while Japanese tweeters could express more than English tweeters in the same character count, they generally don't choose to. That's pretty interesting.
  • jpatokal 11y ago
    Etruscan was written in a predecessor of the Latin alphabet we still use (albeit omitting most vowels), so no, it's not going to have a huge amount of information.