The returns to learning the most common words, by language [OC]Submitted by orgtre t3_xujlqk in dataisbeautiful
orgtre OP t1_iqwzdvz wrote
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Exactly. To clarify: The original comment has 15 "words" (Google counts "," as a separate word...), 2 of which are "I", and 2/15 is around 13%.
The most common Chinese word is "的", which Google translates as "of", and at least in Google's selection of books it makes up 7% of all words.
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