Berto 'd Sera wrote:
100% true. Just compound words in german may make a
great
difference towards English, in piemontese we thousands of 'L L'
n' 'n that would count as words and are but pronominal
particles, plus we usually say everything twice (double subject,
double locatives, etc).
The size of the compressed article dumps would be a better
comparison then, because the same content would still occupy the
same space after all redundancies have been removed.
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Lars Aronsson (lars(a)aronsson.se)
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