What is the most efficient language in the world?
As in, in what language can you express as many ideas with as few words as possible?
What is the most efficient language in the world?
Robert Price
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Isaac Gomez
It probably depends on what you want to express. If you want to describe snow, speak Inuit.
Joseph Nguyen
Why are two emo fags kissing?
Jason Perez
Lets just talk averages here.
Evan Myers
You never kiss your buddies?
Bentley Powell
unironically English if measured by conveyed information per syllable
Anthony Richardson
japanese
Angel Long
That would be a very difficult thing to measure as there are many different ways of saying the same thing in any given language.
You would have to make an algorythm for the simplest way of expressing things but the simplest way of expressing things is not always the most efficient as you would have to leave some details out to do so.
Juan Jackson
How is that measured?
William Hughes
This chart is bullshit. French is a fuckfest of stupid and unnecessary articles and yet makes second place. Youre on thin ice, germany. Your next post better be impressive.
Adrian Martin
God how much I hate leafs
Caleb Lee
japanese
Leo Barnes
You think you can sage my thread and get away with it? Nah. Youre small fry. Just go. Leave. Retarded ass germans stinking up everywhere they go.
Kayden Lopez
Esperanto, obviously.
Easton Ross
Don't derail the thread, faggot.
Answer my question kraut
Jackson Thomas
esperanto lad
Jordan Rodriguez
Latin is pretty based, you can express many things with a single word.
Adam Rivera
A fusional language most likely.
Only draw back is you have more to remember.
Mason Diaz
google for yourself, black skinned "person"
Jack Adams
I didn't post that chart, don't know how it's measured either, sorry
Angel King
The stupid kraut literally said how its measured in his post. Its measured by information per syllable
Bentley Adams
German is in a unique position where you can just take a noun and a verb, put them together and you get a word with a completely new meaning. There are similar words in japanese that try to convey feelings pertaining to their society only. If you want to convey key information as short as possible I think it's english
Michael White
Finnish. Since language is so tied to culture.
There was some video on youtube where american talk show host interviews some finns in the audience. That's the perfect example of efficient communication.
Caleb Torres
>German is in a unique position where you can just take a noun and a verb, put them together and you get a word with a completely new meaning
Could you give me a common example or two? I'm trying to learn German and this sounds like it could be useful to know.
Nathaniel Long
Adrian Ramirez
Russian. For example with our movement verbs you can describe with one word either you left finally and will never come back, or you left for short period of time and will be back soon, either you left by walk or by transport.
Christopher Ward
I hate this meme. You can do the same in English, you just put blanks between two words, sometimes you even don't put a blank between them:
playground
outdoor
pancake
beefeater
hogwash
piecemeal
wedlock
...
Isaiah Murphy
thanks fren
Carter Foster
hmm it's almost like the two are related...
Justin Cruz
Yeah but they are not used in a literary context. Theorotically you could do that of course since english shares the same structure, but they don't.
Nolan Collins
Bump
Jacob Williams
realclearscience.com
English
Interestingly, the languages that conveyed the least amount of information per syllable, like Spanish, Japanese, and French, tended to be spoken at a faster rate. This allowed these languages (apart from Japanese) to deliver a similar amount of information compared to more meaning-dense languages like Mandarin and English.
Noah Ward
load a bs