Ok, that's reasonable of course
>>I'm find that I'm prefer Russian over English as you can type less and it ends up saying say more
Hmm, that's interesting notice, as I would say Russian language is longer, not as long as German, but longer then English.
It is even noticable while GUIs translating. If control contains a sign in English, for Russian it should be extended, but a length is only enough till the moment when German comes
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