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English into Spanish percentage
Posted by anonymous in
24 Nov 2002 — 1:49pm
24 Nov 2002 — 1:49pm
Hi, I need to calculate the length of an english text once it has been translated into spanish. I know there is a percentage (+10% ?), but I can't remember it. The inverse percentage (spanish into english), should also be usefull. Thanks
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25 Nov 2002 — 3:48am
Thanks a lot - muchas gracias
24 Nov 2002 — 2:45pm
It depends on different things, like the nature of the text, and the expertise of the translator.
According to Maxim Zhukov's "Typographica Polyglotta", Spanish is about 15% longer then English, assuming a squeaky-clean translation. A very good translator recently made a Spanish version of a 2,500-word essay of mine, and he ended up with an impressive 14%.
Whether such percentages are symmetric is a question I haven't figured out yet.
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