Re: Language comparison

And English isn't even so bad. ;) 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. Not that redundancy is bad... also, are we talking english text,
or english speech? Afterall, the style of the written language is a
little different from how people actually speak. 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.

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>English has so much redundancy, in fact, that
>something in the neighborhood of 1.3 bits per
>character, on average, it all it takes to encode
>typical English text.
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