Would it be so wrong

[james_davis_nicoll]

To try to convince people that Japanese SF novels tend to be shorter than Anglospheric SF novels because Japanese has fewer words than English? And a lot of Japanese consists of words borrowed from other languages.

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Re: I'm not certain there's a reasonable case to be made for cause and effect here.

[nelc.livejournal.com]

Ah, right, I'm getting it now.

For example

[james-nicoll.livejournal.com]

Gregory Benford:

"These two vast, ancient societies [China and India] withstood the centuries by keeping down innovation, so life was much the same from one millennium to the next. Centuries slid by with little to mark them beyond the feuding of maharajahs."