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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[(Anonymous)]

Not only has Japanese fewer words, but the Japanese government also publishes a list of appropriate words to use, with a special suppelement for those approved for use in proper names.

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