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Can you elaborate on how having 30 words for snow affects a language's information density?
by bobbyz 6y ago
Can you elaborate on how having 30 words for snow affects a language's information density?
- nix23 6y agoEnglish needs maybe 4-5 five words to describe a particular snow condition (hard crust but underneath soft and wet), Inuits have one single word for that exact snow-condition therefore a higher information density (for that situation)
- _4jlx 6y agoThis is not the information density we are referring to.