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Fascinating. Reminds of reading Caesar, who used so many commas and had sentences which were fairly difficult to unpack. (At least that's how it seemed when I w
by QuercusMax 10y ago
Fascinating. Reminds of reading Caesar, who used so many commas and had sentences which were fairly difficult to unpack. (At least that's how it seemed when I was in high school.) Wonder if that's a cultural thing which has been inherited through all these years.
- toyg 10y agoMost educated Italians are still forced to study Latin as teenagers (although numbers have shrunk in the last decade or so). And of course, Romans invented lawyers... Seriously, once you look for it, you see it very clearly. You can usually spot Italians writing in English for their overuse of "the", their sentence length, and a higher frequency of passive verbs. If it feels like that but the number of "the"s is correct, the only explanation is that you are reading Ian McEwan.