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>...that lets them read old letters that were mailed not in envelopes but in the writing paper itself after being folded into elaborate enclosures. How did tha
by ajcp 6y ago
>...that lets them read old letters that were mailed not in envelopes but in the writing paper itself after being folded into elaborate enclosures.
How did that monstrosity get past editing?
- howtowin 6y agoMaybe it’s the fact that I am not seeing the surrounding context with your quote, but it reads fine to me. Perhaps it is my own way of thinking & writing which enables this. I was told by my mother that she knows when she’s reading something I wrote versus my siblings. Otherwise, perhaps it is related to when one reads misspelled or incomplete words, yet our brains enable us to understand what was meant anyway, and in some cases, this is only consciously realized upon a second read.
- tasogare 6y agoNative language probably helps (or hinders) too. In French it’s common to cram 3-4 different information belonging to various level of concerns in a single sentence so I didn’t bat an either at processing the quote.
- JdeBP 6y agoAs dsq points out, maybe ajcp was talking about the punctuation. It could do with a couple of commas.
- hedora 6y agoIt looks fine to me. A lot of the press targets a 6-8th grade reading level. This sentence structure probably violates those rules, I guess.
- dsq 6y agoI would have expected: ...mailed, not in envelopes, but rather...