As a french, I'm very surprised by this, as when I see a text in French side-by-side with its English translation, the English version is usually shorter. It may be a difference between speech and text, but it's still surprising.

I really thought the information density of French was pretty low, compared to English or Breton, for example.

Idk I set up the initial state of the universe so that the disk contains the right data at the right moment

Yeah, really, I only know awk '{ print $SOME_COLUMN_NUMBER }', nothing else.