I've featured quite a few remarkable Welsh sentences on here, and today I've got another for you ... let's go straight there ...
Ma fe'n rhy fyr i fi gal gafel yn ei gwt e, ta pun.
A superb piece of compression there ..... with a puny 35 characters and 15 words.
That comes in at 2.33333333333333333 letters/word.
Here's one from the past ... Dec 2015 .... it comes with a word-length table and everything !
Fe af i â ti i'w weld e os wyt ti eisiau.
Let's go through its winning features ..... for a start, there's a mere 28 characters conveying bags of information. Then there's the amazing word-length distribution ..
Word Length 1 2 3 4 5 6 total
Frequency 5 5 1 1 0 1 13
There's quite a few others dotted about on here but I'm not sure where.
The trouble is, they're so small you see !
I hope you're on the look-out for even "better" examples ..... then you can put them on here as a comment or send it by email to [email protected]
( something's happened to the word spacing )(eek)(and the letter sizes)
There must at some point be an absolute limit to how far this can go ..a sort of Welsh equivalent of the search for tinier and tinier sub-atomic particles. How exciting.
And now, here's another thing from a long way back ... It's Maharishi and " Ty ar y Mynydd" .. and 88000 + viewers can't be wrong.