I agree, this is silly and should be removed. Also, other languages like French are languages that are much longer, with one sentence in English, once translated it makes a paragrah, hence how 1 book in English ends up once translated 2 books. The forums also has other languages beside English and Japanese, like French and German, which are both long languages, it's hard to write then with such a limit. It's much easier for me to express myself here in English because I can say a lot with a few words, than in French in the French section where I would need to write an essay, but cannot anyway. I'm bilingual but many are not.