an interesting challenge

[René Micout]

Hello Jim,
I agree, but...
Here (Wikipedia) it is not only syntaxic explanation but content...  ;-)
René

PS : "Je vais faire des phrases !" Gustave Flaubert...

Le 13 janv. 2010 à 08:36, Jim Bufalini a écrit :

> 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
> 
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