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Wait, so the IR chart shows that italian with all its bippity-boppity conveys less bits of information per second than languages with silent final e like french

• resolutebat 3y ago
  This is about spoken language, not written, so silent letters or pathological spelling (qu'est-ce que c'est?) don't matter. FWIW, the information density of written languages has also been studied, and unsurprisingly Chinese comes on top because it has 4000+ characters to express concepts with.
  • iraqmtpizza 3y ago
    Whether or not a letter is silent literally only matters when speaking/listening. Back in the day, writing was a reflection of what was spoken but in the past few centuries of orthography reform and standardization the written form has become canonical. By silent e I mean to refer to the lack of an additional syllable after the last consonant e.g. faro/loin/far, davanti/devant/before, via/voie/weye As for Chinese, I don't imagine they measured information density per brushstroke 𠔻𠔻𠔻
    • saurik 3y ago
      Per brushstroke is interesting but per unit area in the average font size is also key.
      • iraqmtpizza 3y ago
        QR codes must have Mandarin beat