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comment by kingmudsy
kingmudsy  ·  3828 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Ayatollah Khamenei's Letter to Western Youths

I think this applies to a lot of languages, really. Poetry in particular. Haikus, in my opinion, work better in Japanese because the restrictions were designed to work for the language. This video explains it decently, even if it moves pretty slowly;