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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[houseboatonstyx.livejournal.com]

Well, of course their rule of thumb for accomplishing elegance is that each word in their language may only be used a limited number of times in each work.

No repetitions in haiku, are there? Thought not.