"there is a lot of expressiveness in German that has no English equivalent", true for german and for many other languages (no need to mention asian ones where t

"there is a lot of expressiveness in German that has no English equivalent", true for german and for many other languages (no need to mention asian ones where this is obvious). The word "Zeitgeits" comes to mind too. And considering this, allyagg, i'm not convinced by your argument about vocabulary size, i've always felt the english vocabulary as quite compact (and thus more convenient to use compared to other more complex languages)... EDIT: allyagg, a bit of googling proved you right :) From what i understand, english vocabulary seems more rich of "technical" terms while some other areas are less developed (i would say related to philosophy/poetry concepts for ger and ita for example ), rendering some words in other languages not directly translatable.