Re: German cooking

In article <4753gcFdsvcgU1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Dirk van den Boom <spameimer@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Alma Hromic Deckert schrieb:
According to specs, the German translation of "Jin Shei" runs to 700+
pages - which boggles me. The US edition trade paperback looks
positively svelte by comparison, weighing in at 500 pages.

You need more German to translate a given English text.
I'm currently translating a Fantasy-novel and experience it myself.
German needs, in order to be precise, more or longer words for the same
description.

Does it work in the other direction? When a German book is translated
into English, does it shrink?

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