When you ask Russians how long a text is, they always give it to you in characters, not words. When you ask about salary, they give it to you in months, not years. It's madness, I tell you. Madness!
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@kevinrothrock I think it's like that because in Russia holding down same job for a year is a privilege to many, Kevin.
This lack of planning shows in everything. Even in better years long term strategic planning horizon was 5 years at best, now no one knows what will happen next month, but something might and it might be a 180⁰ turn.
@kevinrothrock As for characters, it might also be something language-specific, not just a local quirk. In Russian you use a lot of compound words and in pursuit for higher word count you can usually just split those into more words, keeping the meaning of text more or less the same. Using character count might be a way to counter that. But I'm no linguist, just my thoughts 🤷