Wednesday, February 8, 2012

Lost in translation...or gained.

Different languages require more or less words to express the same thing. This table of percentage increases and decreases compared to English is interesting and useful in planning communication. It particularly affects 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