an interesting challenge

[Jim Bufalini]

René Micout wrote:

> Apparently (on Wikipedia) the french(s) have more to say about the
> sentence than the english(s)  :-)
> http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phrase

French is apparently always more "wordy" than English. ;-) When I worked
with Eric, he would struggle to fit into the same "space" in French what I
wrote in English (and he was an accomplished author). He told me French is
about one-third more words than English to say the same thought.

Aloha from Hawaii,

Jim Bufalini