• Lvxferre [he/him]@mander.xyz
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    5 hours ago

    Can one not construct a set of information intended to be communicated that could account for those quirks? Find some “lowest common denominator” sentences?

    I think this would require deeper knowledge of all 17 languages in question, and be a potential source of errors - for example, if you include some info in the set that is easier/harder to convey succinctly in one language than in the other languages.

    In the meantime, it’s easy to get good averages for bits/syllable and syllables/second, even if you don’t know the languages in question.