Re: Language comparison

> I suspect a language with more
compulsory agreement, eg adjectives agreeing in case, gender etc with
nouns, verbs agreeing with actor, patient, dative.... would score much
higher.

Exactly my point.

So, dropping that compulsory agreement for something that's more
useful as a "checksum" (other computer analogy) should yield a higher
bitrate for the same amount of content and certainty-via-redundancy.

> You tend to drop and
> abbreviate more things when you speak I think, while writing is often a
> more formal medium so more tends to be retained.
Yeah, but even the most casual French I know tends to still include
the gender-marking. Sure, it doesn't take up *that* much space, but it
adds up.

- Sai

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