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> Russian, has always seemed compact Russian here, I can assure you it decidedly is anything but compact. It frequently annoys me how verbose some things in it
by gspetr 10y ago
> Russian, has always seemed compact
Russian here, I can assure you it decidedly is anything but compact. It frequently annoys me how verbose some things in it are compared to English.
Brevity is the soul of wit.
- pandaman 10y agoHe or she probably means the script, not the terseness of Russian. If you look at English and Russian text you will notice that Russian has longer streaks of letters of the same height/depth compared to English.
- gragas 10y agoThat is indeed what I meant.
- jerry40 10y agoBrevity is the soul of wit. Краткость - сестра таланта. --------- 6:3!