Toni answers “Why is the Spanish version 544 pages and...”

Emily asked this question about Amanecer rojo (Amanecer rojo, #1):

Why is the Spanish version 544 pages and the English version is only 382?

Toni Someone said that Spanish is more analytic than english and that is not true. English has almost no flexion, and Spanish and other Roman languages use…moreSomeone said that Spanish is more analytic than english and that is not true. English has almost no flexion, and Spanish and other Roman languages use flexion in pronouns, substantives and verbs. In English you say "I speak, We speak, You speak" where Spanish just "Hablo, hablamos, habláis" without pronoun, or where english says "I would speak" or "I will go" Spanish says "Hablaría" (hablar = speak, -ía = Me + would) and "Iré" (ir = go, -é = Me + will). English is the most analytic language in Europe, as other Indoeuropean languages are all more or less synthetic.

The fact is that, in Spanish, we use longer words than in English. That's because English has mostly germanic and french words, the germanic words are normally just the root (like in "word-" and not "wordo/worda/wordaz") and French has also lost very endings of the latin original words (for instance, murum > mur). (less)

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