permission to use & reproduce, just not to make money off of.
All it takes is a freaking good camera
On the distance between languages
Here are the results of a small study to calculate the distance between words in english and other languages. The way the computation is done is by going through a list of basic english words, using the Google Translate API to get translations into other languages and finally computing a levenshtein between each English/translated pair of words. The final distance is an average.
This only looks at the spelling words, the next step is to look at their phonemes.
Feel free to use the datasets bellow and please let me know what you’re working on 🙂
| language | distance from english |
| Swedish | 63.88% |
| Danish | 66.69% |
| Dutch | 66.78% |
| French | 69.31% |
| German | 72.27% |
| Italian | 76.89% |
| Spanish | 82.14% |
| Albanian | 88.61% |
| Croatian | 90.74% |
| Estonian | 91.45% |
| Polish | 92.48% |
| Hungarian | 102.2% |
les francais sont des branleurs professionels
Les francais ne font pas greve pour revandiquer quoique ce soit, ils font greve car cela fait partit du folklore national. Pour donner plus d’impact a leur greve etouffee par toutes les autres greves, c’est a qui foutra le plus la merde: operations escargot, blocages, penuries, detournements, mouvement coincidants avec les grands departs, et cetera. Et les lyceens sont de la partie, non qu’ils aient quoi que ce soit d’interessant a ajouter, mais organiser une greve lyceenne fait partie d’un des rites de passages a la vie de branleur professionel assiste par l’etat.
Illustre ci dessous: une brochette de braillards sans cerveau flambent des caisses a cote d’une raffinerie
