Perché in Italiano si usano tante parole per esprimere delle idee semplici?

Italiano vs Inglese

Why Italians use dozens of words for a simple concept? The difference between the Italian language (a reader-responsible language), and English (a writer-responsible language).

During the peak of the Covid pandemic, airports across northern Europe used a single short sentence to ask travellers to wear a mask. At Rome Fiumicino the same instruction was spelled out in about forty words, complete with the date and reference of the ministerial decree behind it.

That contrast says a lot about the two legal and linguistic cultures. Italian writing tends to leave the reader to extract the meaning from a dense, formal text; English writing puts the burden on the writer to be plain. It is a distinction worth keeping in mind whenever an Italian document has to work in an English-speaking context, and vice versa.