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I'm not convinced. > In the past, the severed heads of these Berber bandits covered the ground of the palace at Sijilmasa; there were highwaymen, then, who sto
by plouffy 8y ago
I'm not convinced.
> In the past, the severed heads of these Berber bandits covered the ground of the palace at Sijilmasa; there were highwaymen, then, who stopped you across the Sahara en route to the Land of the Blacks.
I don't know what's trying to be said here.
- pier25 8y agoWhat's confusing you?
- kerbalspacepro 8y agoIt is a confusing sentence. Semicolons are stupid and shouldn't be used anymore. It has a random "then" thrown in there for no reason.
- pier25 8y agoA bit poetic maybe, but it sounds fine to me. Maybe because English is not my first language.
- CogitoCogito 8y agoI find the sentence very confusing, but I don't think it has anything to do with semicolons. It just seems like unclear writing to me.
- jacquesm 8y agoTry reading it out loud. Keep in mind that the original is in French and this is a translation of that French text so you are probably more at war with the translator than with the writer. Even so, to me - also a non-native English speaker - there wasn't a sentence in the article that I could not understand, sometimes it just takes a bit more effort.
- tralarpa 8y agoI am not a native speaker and always eager to improve. I understood the "then" as "at that time (in the past)". Is that wrong?
- cco 8y agoThat is correct.
- oh_sigh 8y agoIs english your native language? This seems like a pretty straightforward sentence.