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Ironically, this itself reads like a translation. I don't feel like most native English speakers would express this so elaborately or with so many phrases inter
by mauvehaus 4y ago
Ironically, this itself reads like a translation. I don't feel like most native English speakers would express this so elaborately or with so many phrases interjected with commas.
I am utmostly certain that such phrases, that mark the writing as a refined specimen, go by a proper name of their own. I write at great remove from my most recent grammar lessons, and so their name does not fall easily to hand at this time.
- YurgenJurgensen 4y agoThe author in question was born in 1916, and the book appears to be from 1988. I suppose the past truly is a foreign country, even if that past isn't that long ago.
- mauvehaus 4y agoWow. That's maybe 100 years newer than I'dve guessed. It sounds almost Victorian in its phrasing. Before any English folks start sharpening their torches and pitchforks, I speak the bastardized rustic version of your tongue in the USA. Apologies if I can't tell Victorian English from Elizabethan (II) English.