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Not sure where I read it, but it was recently - languages that sound faster really just tend to have more syllables per concept, and all languages generally ten
by tunesmith 14y ago
Not sure where I read it, but it was recently - languages that sound faster really just tend to have more syllables per concept, and all languages generally tend to have the same speed of communicated concept.
- btilly 14y agoWhoever said that was not a competent programmer, discussing programming languages. Research into programming languages says that lines of code written/day tends to be surprisingly consistent. But the amount of functionality embedded in that code varies widely depending on the language. Faster languages are ones that take over basic mechanics for you (eg memory management), infer things for you (eg compare C++ to go), or offer more convenient abstractions (eg compare scripting languages to C or Java). The difference is usually an order of magnitude, but can be more in the right circumstances.
- tunesmith 14y agoI'm talking about spoken languages. Spanish, for instance - low amount of concepts per syllable, which is why it sounds so fast.
- johnwatson11218 14y agoI read the same thing, the article I read also said that Chinese encodes more info per sound so it sounds like the speakers are speaking more slowly. English was somewhere in the middle.