Show I 1 BEST TO USE correspondent finds fanda english language to be t the he tersest in europe which len language lengu guage aga makes the best at so BO much a wo word rd one I 1 might hasten to say eay german because of its purely typographical device of sticking a number of words together to look like one com compound pound word we really do exactly the same thing in n english only wo print the elements of the compound as separate words but in international telegraphing there Is a word length limit or as the germans would print a ten letters to Is the maximum allowed for a single word any word longer than that counts as two or as aa three if it gets beyond the second ten at as some german worda 10 lo do when it comes to counting letters or making up intelligible english it seems Is the tersest language in europe an italian newspaper correspondent respondent or has lately ered this in telegraphing news from london to his paper in italy at the beginning of the war he used italian then when all languages except english and french were forbidden he be took french later finding that french though accepted by the post office seemed to cause delay he changed to english and to his aur prise lie he finds that he bo is saving raving quite a lot of money in telegraph fees owing to the super su loi brevity of the english language as compared with french or italian |