lazy me.....i'm just posting my reply as a new blog engry...wahahahahaha ^^

 

hehe...me translating for an uncle, it's like a business cooreration plan...and it's about FISH...amazing isn't it?!?! hehe..it's like a follow-up job after going to Aussie last Dec....um...english to chinese is harder (for me) coz i know what the english means...but don't know the word in chinese...get me? well...the answer to my idiotic question was....chinese comparing to english average is: chinese words>english words....

 

eg...... 你今天晚上吃饭了吗？ into       Have you had dinner tonight?...

 

seems longer in length for english ba? but that's only letters...i asked for words...so....CHINESE words are more than ENGLISH words....what really makes me angry was...i'm translating 8 pages of Chinese into English...and i still have one more page to translate...but i already have 14 pages in english....seems like a lot of money and i'm like laughing hard out....but...when i look at the word-count...i'm so ANGRY and SAD... >_< ... so i came out with one thought : ENGLISH are cheap....CHINESE are expensive...hehe...take any interpretation you want...in literature, or mankind...hehe ....(not being racist ne...just joking around ^^)