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Re:The internet is multilingual but you need to learn Mandarin by nix23 on Sunday July 26, 2020 @05:15PM (#23960246)
>You're thinking about it from purely a programmer's perspective

>Suddenly, bandwidth decreases by 20%, downloads are 20% faster

Who is thinking from a programmer perspective now? Compression is not always a good thing, and for sure not in natural language.

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Re:The internet is multilingual but you need to learn Mandarin by bobbyz on Monday July 27, 2020 @12:08PM (#23966425)
Why is compression bad in natural language? From reading those vitamin water labels it's clear to me that English still has room to shrink before we experience a substantial hit to readability. 'You' to 'u', 'what' to 'wat', 'phone' to 'fone', etc.
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