[surement]

> I think that the set of possible French texts is exactly as large as the set of reals.

How? The set of French texts is countable and the set of reals is uncountable.

[gerdesj]

0,1,2 etc are French words. All reals are French words 8)

[jawarner]

This is not true, no French word has an infinite length. Any set of finite strings is countable.

[Retra]

Not all French texts need be finished either. Nobody his picked a date boundary to constrain all French text. Nor has anyone formalized which texts are French, since the French language is evolving.