[Ffmpeg-devel] Re: Semantic Error?

[Måns Rullgård]

Erik Slagter <erik at slagter.name> writes:

> On Tue, 2006-01-31 at 12:36 +0000, M?ns Rullg?rd wrote:
>> Erik Slagter said:
>> > On Mon, 2006-01-30 at 23:48 +0000, M?ns Rullg?rd wrote:
>> >> > 	No, it's 'ou' vs. 'o': compute_mb_neighbours(). Now you see
>> >> > 	why British English is so suboptimal.
>> >>
>> >> It's still much more efficient than French.
>> >
>> > Interesting, because many words in English are either exactly copied
>> > from French words or with slight alterations. Also at least French has a
>> > very strong relation between written and spoken language and a whole lot
>> > less exceptions.
>> 
>> In an average piece of French text, how many words have four or so silent
>> letters at the end?  How many English words look like this?
>
> This fact I do not debate ;-) I guess the obtainable compression rate of
> a French text would be somewhat higher than English text. But that's
> also due to somehow French needing more _words_ for valid sentences.

That last bit is probably because English has more words, some of them
with very specific meanings.

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M?ns Rullg?rd
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