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Was the English system of government similar to the French? The German? The Greek? The Chinese? And who governed the Romantic era? Countries have governments,
by tgv 4y ago
Was the English system of government similar to the French? The German? The Greek? The Chinese? And who governed the Romantic era?
Countries have governments, badly defined time periods don't.
- cess11 4y agoThe sentence you quoted from mentions the British Empire twice already, do you really need a third mention at the end to understand what the context is for the quoted part?
- tgv 4y agoWe know exactly when Shelley lived. There’s no need to mention that either. It’s a form of bad journalistic fluffing, that in —-a straightforward interpretation— is misleading.
- cess11 4y agoCan't be easy getting angry about journalism at bits of sentences taken out of context in non-journalistic texts.