Lost in translation...or gained?
Because of my interest in words and languages, I often get lost in arcane considerations.
Trivia which you may have been dying to know:
Different languages often require different numbers of words to express the same thing. This table of percentage increases and decreases of number of words needed, as compared to English, is intrinsically interesting to me. It also can be useful in planning such things as advertising and publishing layouts. Finnish allows the most concise expression of the languages on this list, with French, German, Italian and Spanish shown as the most verbose.
Source: Financial News 11Jul11 p. 27
http://culturespan.blogspot.com/2012/02/lost-in-translationor-gained.html
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