Yep, it takes a pretty bloviated language to make English look succinct and crisp. The French have eight word long word descriptions of concepts that the English can describe in two.
"Yep, it takes a pretty bloviated language to make English look succinct and crisp."
"The French have eight word long word descriptions of concepts that the English can describe in two." [17]
Les francais expriment en huit mots ce que les anglais peuvent exprimer en deux. [14]