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It's... interesting... to note that the example of a text in ithkuil takes up about as much space as the normal English text, due to how large ithkuil has to be
by TheRealPomax 3y ago
It's... interesting... to note that the example of a text in ithkuil takes up about as much space as the normal English text, due to how large ithkuil has to be written compared to regular text.
- uoaei 3y agoSpoken language tends to converge at ~40 bits per second for all natural human languages.[1] I wouldn't be surprised that if separate scripts were developed independently for each language they would all converge on a certain rate of information per square centimeter as well. [1] https://www.science.org/content/article/human-speech-may-have-universal-transmission-rate-39-bits-second https://www.science.org/content/article/human-speech-may-hav...
- fsiefken 3y agoIf you look at the v4 example sheet liked to at ithkuil.place you see that it is roughly the same length as English, keep in mind it has a larger alphabet so to really compare one needs to transcribe to the ascii adaptation