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> Also polish stylistics use new line for each character speaking so short conversations can take many lines. That's pretty much universal in modern English bo
by bloak 4y ago
> Also polish stylistics use new line for each character speaking so short conversations can take many lines.
That's pretty much universal in modern English books, too, and I've seen it given as a rule in several places.
I'm not sure about other languages and other times, but first editions of Kafka definitely have some long paragraphs: https://de.wikisource.org/wiki/Der_Prozess/1._Kapitel https://de.wikisource.org/wiki/Der_Prozess/1._Kapitel
- szszrk 4y agoThat is actually new to me, but maybe because I'm into sci-fi from around 1950-1970, where direct conversations between characters are just "quoted sentences" inside narrator sentences. I'm a bit of Philip K. Dick fan and have "A Scanner Darkly" in two languages. Polish version is 150 pages more, an inch wider and an inch taller in size. Not that PKD elaborate language would justify more flourish translation, he was very "straight to the point". It's such a waste.
- dllthomas 4y agoHaving grown up in a sci-fi family and married into a Polish one, it's been an experience relearning how to pronounce "Stanislaw Lem"...