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Originally Posted by tompe
What extra information does word count give you that is not available in character count? I mean you have to know what language the text is in both cases and what properties this language have. And if you know this the different measurements seems equivalent to me.
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What? I've already answered this question. I have no desire to endlessly reiterate myself so I'll try to break it down now. I've given two main reasons 1) Word count provides a useful metric for determining how fast a text can be read. People read words not individual letters. 2) Word count provides smaller numerical values than character count. Perhaps it might be more useful to ask why do you think character count would be superior to word count?
If the two seem equivalent then why would you prefer the one that yields the higher numerical values?