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Yasna wrote:Has anyone read The Mahabharata, unabridged?
vijayjohn wrote:Actually, now I'm curious, since I don't recall ever hearing anyone mention anything from it before: Does anyone besides me (and presumably some of the Indian users who show up every now and then) even know any stories from it?
voron wrote:vijayjohn wrote:Actually, now I'm curious, since I don't recall ever hearing anyone mention anything from it before: Does anyone besides me (and presumably some of the Indian users who show up every now and then) even know any stories from it?
We learnt about it at school, but I don't remember off the top of my head what it is about or any stories from it.
Johanna wrote:And to be honest, it's a much better indication of how much time and energy it will take to read something than page count ever will. The number of pages depends on what font is used, its size, and the space between lines and paragraphs, while the word count always stays the same.
linguoboy wrote:Johanna wrote:And to be honest, it's a much better indication of how much time and energy it will take to read something than page count ever will. The number of pages depends on what font is used, its size, and the space between lines and paragraphs, while the word count always stays the same.
But it does make crosslinguistic comparisons more difficult because the definition of a "word" varies so much between languages. You couldn't even find "word counts" for the original versions of Chinese and Japanese works, only character counts.
Milly19 wrote:was Shantaram for me. great and memoreble book. about 1000 p.
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