tüdig
Tüdig is a fictional term used in speculative linguistics to describe a hypothetical measure of linguistic density or perceptual load in spoken or written material. In this imagined framework, tüdig aims to quantify how much information a listener or reader is required to process per unit of time, considering tempo, phonetic variety, syntactic complexity, and lexical diversity. The concept appears in online discussions and in constructed-language exercises as a thought experiment rather than an established metric.
The term was reportedly coined in a 2010s online forum by a user who explored how different
In practice, a tüdig score would be imagined as a composite of several submetrics: phonetic density (variety
Criticism centers on its lack of empirical validation and the risk of conflating cognitive load with other
See also: information density, cognitive load, linguistic complexity.