Timeline for Japanese language "compression ratio"
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| Oct 25, 2013 at 3:38 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/#!/StackJapanese/status/393582254188142592 | ||
| Oct 17, 2013 at 23:07 | answer | added | Tsuyoshi Ito | timeline score: 6 | |
| Oct 17, 2013 at 13:50 | comment | added | Tsuyoshi Ito | @Igor Skochinsky: I am afraid that it is not that definitive. Note that the question asks the number of pages needed to express the same thing in Japanese and English. You are comparing the number of characters between Japanese and English, but then a character in Japanese takes more space than a character in English on paper, so these effects may well cancel each other when we compare the number of pages. | |
| Oct 17, 2013 at 0:31 | answer | added | jovanni | timeline score: 4 | |
| Oct 16, 2013 at 21:23 | answer | added | ithisa | timeline score: 1 | |
| Oct 16, 2013 at 20:18 | comment | added | Igor Skochinsky | Japanese is definitely much more dense than letter-based scripts. Just look at what Japanese people post on Twitter. They can fit a complete story or two in a single tweet, while English speakers often have to split single sentences. | |
| Oct 16, 2013 at 19:55 | comment | added | rurouniwallace | @istrasci I don't think this should be closed as off topic. There could very well be answers that aren't speculative. I find it hard to believe that there is absolutely no hard data on this subject. | |
| Oct 16, 2013 at 19:51 | review | Close votes | |||
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| Oct 16, 2013 at 19:42 | comment | added | zrtvovan_u_masi | @istrasci: I understand that it might be off-topic for japanese.stackexchange, but I had to ask it somewhere. PhoenixFox: I already did something on my own, comparing Anna Karenina, Crime and Punishment and Catcher in the Rye in Japanese and English (using Amazon book data). Interesting enough, the Japanese version of The Catcher in the Rye had more pages than the English one. Still not sure what happened there. | |
| Oct 16, 2013 at 19:33 | comment | added | user4060 | Well, the answer is determined by many factors. As of yet, there do not seem to be any formal studies in English. Are you asking for how many kana on average, using kanji will save? Perhaps you are asking how much shorter Japanese is than the equivalent English? In the latter case, I recommend you compare Japanese classics with their English translation and English books with Japanese translations. Check these sites: Aozora Bunko and Project Gutenberg. You will probably need to conduct your own research. | |
| Oct 16, 2013 at 19:31 | comment | added | istrasci | This is an interesting question, but it feels very speculative at best, and thus off-topic in my mind. | |
| Oct 16, 2013 at 19:20 | review | First posts | |||
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| Oct 16, 2013 at 19:01 | history | asked | zrtvovan_u_masi | CC BY-SA 3.0 |