Chinese speed-reading

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1 total messages Started by "Weng Fatt Fong" Tue, 02 Apr 1991 20:51

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Author: "Weng Fatt Fong"
Date: Tue, 02 Apr 1991 20:51

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 cl@lgc.com (Cameron Laird) writes...

>>The fastest I heard from Chinese in soc.culture.china was
>>50,000 characters per minute and for English
>>5,000 words a minute.  On the average a Chinese word
>>is two characters.

>Is the whole curve shifted?  Do "average" Chinese
>and Japanese literates read five times as fast as
>their Latin-alphabet counterparts?

I have not read the original append in soc.culture.china, but I
think there might be a misinterpretation of sorts along the
bandwidth. I know there have been studies that showed the Chinese
language to have 4 to 5 times more information content
than English. Probably someone translated that to mean a
Chinese reader can "speed read" 50,000 Chinese characters in
one minute!!

Weng Fatt Fong
wffong@torolab4.vnet.ibm.com

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