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Seems like an easy hypothesis to test: Do languages with a formal tense have short corporate language?
by adgjlsfhk1 1y ago
Seems like an easy hypothesis to test: Do languages with a formal tense have short corporate language?
- jdoliner 1y agoThis is what the argument I read claimed, I haven't verified it.
- Ifkaluva 1y agoI’m a native Spanish speaker—all forms of written Spanish are more verbose than English, but the formal form is even more verbose. I remember notifications my school used to send my parents were hilariously wordy by English standards.
- xdennis 1y ago> notifications my school used to send my parents were hilariously wordy There might be something else at play there. Public sector workers are notorious for wooden language. The example I hate the most is how they always say "number of" before every number like "we'll buy 10 new busses" becomes "we will commence the procurement of a number of 10 new buses".
- Ifkaluva 1y agoPublic sector workers? No, this was a private school.
- f1shy 1y agoI can speak 4 EU languages besides english. All 4 have special forms which are “formal” all 4 more verbose in the formal form. So if you ask me: “no”