@Felthry I'm guessing sentences are pretty short then?
@BatElite I have no idea! I just encountered this one in attempting to learn about the various indo-european words that mean bear
@lizardsquid @BatElite Basque isn't indo-european, right?
@lizardsquid @BatElite right!
I wonder, on a broad scale, what language families tend to be the most long-winded
@Felthry @BatElite as in most words, or longest words?
or longest time for an average utterance?
(to be clear about the last one: Navajo has a much higher density of information per sound than English does, so in navajo the word "najiné" means "they are playing", but since Navajo is spoken at a slower pace, navajo sentences and english sentences take around the same amount of time to say)
@lizardsquid @BatElite oh I was thinking most words per sentence
I think there's actually a theory that all languages have generally about the same time-density of information or something like that, due to being limited by how quickly the brain can easily parse information or something
@BatElite @Felthry @lizardsquid this is a cool conversation
@BatElite @Felthry @lizardsquid im glad my little anecdote about bears brought this up
@daylight @Felthry @lizardsquid I understand it at a surface level.
@Felthry @lizardsquid AFAIK languages generally do conpensate simplicity in one place with complexity (or bulk) in another, don't they?