Re: [lojban] Tangent: Is there a better grammar?

[Michael Everson <michael.everson@gmail.com>]

On 7 Apr 2010, at 08:35, GFBeresford@gmail.com wrote:

> Does anyone know if lojban texts have statistically more/less syllables than their english/natural language equivalents? I suppose to be truly fair, those stats might need to include texts composed in lojban and then translated into english as well...

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland: 

Lojban (raw text taken from PDF, table of contents removed, no punctuation)
31,727 words
112,238 characters (no spaces)
144,018 characters (with spaces)

English (table of contents removed, normal punctuation)
26,519 words
115,922 characters (no spaces)
141,867 characters (with spaces)

Irish (table of contents removed, normal punctuation)
30,498 words
132,311 characters (no spaces)
162,173 characters (with spaces)

I leave it for the numerate to determine whether this data is of any use in terms of the question.

Michael

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