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By the way, I just say this because you're obviously not a native English speaker: Although your meaning is clear, "ancient" is too strong a word for a text fro
by Nition 7y ago
By the way, I just say this because you're obviously not a native English speaker: Although your meaning is clear, "ancient" is too strong a word for a text from 1871. Ancient means a very long time ago, like maybe 1000 years or more (there's no exact definition). For this book you might just use "old", or "antique".
Also, interesting to see the old letters of Cyrillic, so thank you for the links.
- ordu 7y ago> "ancient" is too strong a word for a text from 1871 > use "old", or "antique" Yes, thanks! I knew the precise meaning of "ancient" (it is like in "Ancient Greece" or "Ancient Egypt", it is about times that were really different), it seems as an exaggeration, but thought that "old" is not specific enough and "antique" didn't came into my mind. At the same exaggeration is a valid literacy device. Thank you, for pointing at that. I really appreciate that, because I feel that my English is not perfect, and the lack of feedback in internet conversations doesn't allow me to improve it.
- Nition 7y agoNo problem. :) And yeah, as you say you can use it as intentional hyperbole as well. "Wow, the first version of The Art of Computer Programming came out in 1968 - that's ancient!"