Spanish tends to use longer words, with more specific (but perhaps redundant) modifiers than english. But people speaking spanish tend to speak faster than people speaking english -- the built in redundancy helps here.
Also, people fluent in both languages seem to tend towards using spanish verbs and english nouns. (Spanish has richer verbs, English has richer nouns). [This is based on observations from living in LA, and three semesters of spanish in college. But linguists might be able to correct some of the generalizations I have made.] FYI, -- Raul ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
