[Zitrax]

Wouldn't average characters per sentence be a slightly better measure? In German and other Germanic languages it's common with compounded words, thus word XY seem long but would in English just be written as X Y.

[kuschku]

Probably, but then, on Twitter, people abbreviate words in english or leave them out in ways that aren’t possible in German.

It’s hard when you need 3 or 4 tweets for a simple sentence explaining why Sony DCP projectors used to be easier for piracy than competing products.