Anyone in internationalization help me here? Why would German require 10x the space of English? It's very unübersichtlichpic.twitter.com/sHAQhYyyFd
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10x more words? That's some dictionary...
If they used a pocket one for English, and regular one for German, it’s not hard to imagine? Also, I think German is conjugated or declined more? That might account for it if they need to store each word in many forms.
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