quyksilver

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bethposting
@bethposting

if you go based on written product labels, French seems like a really inefficient language compared to English

stuff like "small binder clips" versus "pince-notes de petit format." but on the other hand they kinda make up for it by deleting half the consonants

ur-gothmom
@ur-gothmom

French is 15-20% longer than English, which is an issue when you are e.g. producing bilingual signage or documentation (hashtag Canadian problems) and trying to have the French and English come out approximately the same length. They used to solve for this by reducing the font size of the French but that is no longer considered politically correct.

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ewie
@ewie

it’s a problem in web design too! i cannot count the number of times i’ve read articles saying “make sure your web design can adapt to when the text is up to 150% its length and down to 75% of its length” or something like that. turns out not accounting for translation is just a common problem

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silverspots
@silverspots

English is one of the more efficient languages, in terms of syllables to information ratio. They did a study that compared talking speeds of people in a bunch of different languages and found that even though the number of syllables per second varied greatly, the amount of information per second was nearly constant across nearly all languages

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