The 'Chinese' Theory: For and Against

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BTW, I'm not sure what method was used to determine the number of words for the Chinese manuscript.

I asked DeepSeek, presumably more knowledgeable about Classical Chinese than Google Translate, if words can be reliably identified.

I'm not sure this applies to Classical Chinese. As far as I remember, in Classical Chinese usually one word was represented by one character. Quoting You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.: "Almost all lexemes in Classical Chinese are individual characters one spoken syllable in length. This contrasts with modern Chinese dialects where two-syllable words are extremely common." So the task is mostly trivial.

My question was not about how to do this, but what specific method was used by Prof. Stolfi.