“French [is] a much higher-context language than English. […]there are 7 times more words in English than in French (500,000 versus 70,000), which suggests that French relies on contextual clues to resolve semantic ambiguities […]. Many words in French have multiple meanings e.g., ennuyé can mean either "bored" or "bothered" depending on the context[…]-which means that the listener is responsible for discerning the intention of the speaker.”
~ Erin Meyer, The culture map
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