@mcc Hindi's got to be pretty good. "नमस्ते" (namaste) clocks in at 18 bytes for 3 gcs; of that the "-ste" alone (स्ते) is 12 bytes for 1gc. "पास्त्रामी" (pastrami - I'm just thinking of random words here) is 30 bytes for still 3 gcs. I'm sure someone who actually knows Hindi could do much better here!
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