On: New example of rare Etruscan writing found

[raldi]

Half a tweet.

[FroshKiller → raldi]

It could be an extraordinarily expressive language, though. Think about what Japanese writers can do with 140 characters.

[coderdude → FroshKiller]

This made me want to Google 'Japanese entropy bits' and the first hit for me was this paper: http://www.phontron.com/paper/neubig13sam.pdf

"How Much is Said in a Tweet? A Multilingual, Information-theoretic Perspective"

I think what you want is presented in a figure on page 6.

[FroshKiller → coderdude]

So while Japanese tweeters could express more than English tweeters in the same character count, they generally don't choose to. That's pretty interesting.

[_0nac → FroshKiller]

Etruscan was written in a predecessor of the Latin alphabet we still use (albeit omitting most vowels), so no, it's not going to have a huge amount of information.