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Re:The internet is multilingual but you need to learn Mandarin by bobbyz on Monday July 27, 2020 @11:52AM (#23966271)
Can you elaborate on how having 30 words for snow affects a language's information density?
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Re:The internet is multilingual but you need to learn Mandarin by nix23 on Tuesday July 28, 2020 @08:59AM (#23975210)
English needs maybe 4-5 five words to describe a particular snow condition (hard crust but underneath soft and wet), Inuits have one single word for that exact snow-condition therefore a higher information density (for that situation)
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Re:The internet is multilingual but you need to learn Mandarin by _4jlx on Tuesday July 28, 2020 @03:58PM (#23980011)
This is not the information density we are referring to.
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