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by asymmetric 5398 days ago
didn't the study state just the contrary: that english is more dense than japanese?
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This study was about syllables, not characters vs symbols.

Example:

Japanese for mouth 口 = 1 "character" English = 5 charachters

The syllables are irrelevant, though above they match; twitter care about characters.

Also note the:

> "Slightly related"