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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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This seems like an isomeme to the bit in Snow Crash where Sumerian is human brain machine code.

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