Latin is very efficient in terms of number of words per unit concept communicated.
By
Eilonwy
on April 18, 2007
I don't know enough about Spanish to weigh in on the inspiring post (which was about syllables, not words), but Latin is truly awe-inspiring. When you combine three grammatical genders with conjugation and declension and establish a set of defaults so you don't always have to use a pronoun, not to mention have 'and' a suffix instead of a separate word...well, that's a lot of communication per word, right there.
Perhaps German has it beat, but is it really FAIR to glue all your words together into megagigantowords? ;)
This is my opinion. And it is my further opinion that Cartago delenda est.
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People often forget that Germans tend to be extremely silly.
"Sum." -- some ancient Roman geezer.
If you think German is hard, don't ever try learning Russian. It's far, far worse (for a Westerner). It uses the Cyrillic alphabet instead of the Latin one, has seven cases to German's four, recognises no word order, has no word for "to be" in the first person singular and declines irregularly in every case.
My brain hurts just thinking about it.
I love Russian.
Оно самые лучшие.
Also:
Vēnī, vīdī, vīcī!
I'm fairly sure that :
Vēnī, vīdī, vīcī!
isn't Russian.