>>We found that each language has its own natural length to say things.....
>>Japanese has twice US English, hence the master script gets 50% reduction
>>before translation, etc.
>
>fascinating

German is much longer as well. I ran into that problem when I worked in
publishing. We printed just the picture part of full-color medical books,
and then dropped in the various languages into the blank spots. What a
challenge!

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