Re: Your vote on a common global language

From: Miguel Cruz (mnc_at_admin.u.nu)
Date: 12/05/04 

Date: Sat, 04 Dec 2004 23:34:49 -0600

I Am What I Am <iamwhatiam@gmail.com> wrote:
> windsor <none@hotmail.com> wrote:
>> Any sentence in Chinese will take far longer to write than the English
>> equivalent.
>
> I think otherwise, because a single hieroglyph may substitute an
> English word of so many letters. In English you need 6 letters to
> write mother, in Chinese you need only one hieroglyph to write the
> same.

Now count the strokes in the Chinese character versus the strokes in the
corresponding English word. Make sure you take a fair number of words, as
extremely basic words like "mother" will tend to favor Chinese. And also
include a time penalty for the additional precision required to make the
Chinese characters actually legible.

miguel 

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